The statement says that Co-operative will continue to monitor and provide training.

"(iii) Measuring our progress: How effective are we?

Being open and honest is a key part of our Co-op difference. Our approach to ethical trade – which includes our efforts on modern slavery – includes setting targets, monitoring performance, and reporting progress in our Co-op Way Report.

Our food business uses a comprehensive set of key performance indicators (KPIs) to provide insight into the performance of the Food Ethical Trade programme, including actions to identify and address modern slavery such as: progress in improving transparency of our supply chains, audit programmes, improvements in supplier performance, supplier training and wider collaborative activities on

modern slavery. You can read more about our food business’ performance in 2016 here.

In 2017 we’ll continue to develop and report on speci c KPIs to demonstrate our progress on modern slavery in our food business. We’ll also be developing measures to assess the effectiveness of policies and controls on modern slavery across the procurement of goods and services we use in

our own business.

And we’ll be measuring and reporting on our campaign activity on modern slavery and the impact it has had, including an independent evaluation of Project Bright Future"