We have made progress against our targets and do not place new orders with factories with out-of-date audits. 79% of our factories were graded green (low risk), 20% were graded orange (high risk) and 1% were graded red (critical risk). Overall during the year we reviewed 1,263 ethical audits for all of our brands. These figures are communicated to our Board on a periodic basis as part of our company-wide Board Report.
Modern slavery is a complex issue that we cannot tackle alone and our audit programme, although an important element of our Ethical Trade programme, is only one aspect of driving long-term change.
Therefore, we continue to update our high-risk country list and factory set-up criteria. We have a number of collaborative projects in our supply chain countries.