Question: Does the company’s statement identify specific geographic regions (e.g. Indonesia), industries (e.g. agriculture), resources (e.g. Palm Oil) or types of workforce (e.g. migrant workers) where the risk of modern slavery is the greatest?"
Answer:
No
8095028
Walk Free
Schroders
2020
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updated over 2 years ago by Singh Anjali

The company does not explicitly report high-risk areas.

pg. 9

"In 2020, we assessed our full supplier base using our new proprietary modern slavery risk framework tool, developed by our sustainable investment team. Using this tool we mapped our supplier base by region, industry type, modern slavery management score and spend, and subsequently categorised our suppliers into low, medium and higher risk. We categorised 718 suppliers globally (about 8% of our supply chain spend) into the higher risk category. As we were applying this framework for the first time to our own supplier base, we took a cautious approach to categorising our suppliers, preferring to place suppliers in higher risk categories in the first instance for further scrutiny."

Singh Anjali.....2021-10-25 10:29:52 UTC