Walk Free+MSA risk assessment+Sainsbury's+2020+Discussion

• Risk management: "... We took the decision to expand our innovative Modern Slavery Risk Assessment Tool into a broader tool looking at human rights risks. We worked with Sedex, one of the world’s leading ethical trade membership organisations, to gather the data scores about various risks across our Supplier Code of Conduct and overlay these with our own, detailed data" (pg. 9). 

• Questionnaires:

• "We made it clear to suppliers any declarations that they made through this questionnaire would not result in any commercial penalty to encourage honest feedback. 38 suppliers responded through the questionnaire and we continued to work with these suppliers to close any concerns" (12). 
• "We started by developing our Sustainable Sourcing Policy and in July 2019 we piloted new sustainability questions in our holistic Supplier Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ)" (pg. 18).

• Research:

• "Building on previous research on the Myanmar- Thailand recruitment corridor, Issara continues to work with Sainsburys’ suppliers in its Ethical Recruitment programme" (pg. 21)
• "We joined the Unseen business portal in February 2021 to help increase our intelligence gathering for modern slavery risks in the UK and to support the UK’s Modern Slavery Helpline which is funded through the membership’s fees of the business portal" (pg. 4).
• "We have also joined forces with a group of retailers and UK food producers to pilot the Modern Slavery Intelligence Network, looking at how we can better share information about potential forced labour to understand how we might pre-empt and disrupt modern slavery networks" (pg. 4).