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AUDITING

"Our auditing partners Bureau Veritas (BV) have completed 382 audits globally this calendar year to date.

The group’s UK and International ethical compliance team members conduct meetings with suppliers to remediate issues and ensure suppliers continually strive to improve labour standards within their supply chain.

The group’s International ethical teams conduct unannounced factory visits to evidence the closure of non-compliances, worker welfare interviews, wages and documentation checks, contracts and right to work checks and health and safety factory checks. The teams also conduct full active purchase order checks within the facility to reduce the risk of unauthorised subcontracting.

We have internal compliance teams conducting factory visits and spot checks in the group’s key sourcing countries – UK, Italy, Turkey and Morocco and China.

Bureau Veritas are the group’s preferred global auditing partner. In line with industry standards, the group will accept audits undertaken within 12 months from 34 different audit bodies. BV converts existing audits that meet our criteria into a group audit report format.