"2018 statement objective: We intended to follow our plan for when suppliers don’t adhere to, or provide evidence of adherence to, the provisions in the Supplier Code of Conduct. The plan being communication, capacity building, and termination of relationship if criminal activity is in question.
Changes made: While this plan is still in place, we haven’t been able to initiate as much of it as we would have liked. We have learned that as an SME, our leverage is far smaller than that of a large company. Instead we decided to focus our efforts on the suppliers that we deemed a priority. This list was determined by looking at our biggest suppliers, our highest risk suppliers and those we felt we had a strong enough relationship with for it to be used as leverage. One such group is our labour suppliers who we have been working closely with to mutually strengthen our anti-slavery activities." p. 9