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"JD’s approach to risk assessment comprises of self assessment and country research, supply chain mapping, 3rd party auditing and stakeholder engagement.

Audits identify risk at factory level against that Code of Conduct and local laws, enabling us to take immediate action and mitigate risk across our supply chain whilst identifying and addressing potential factors that may exist in the background.

On receipt, the factory setup is reviewed in detail by the ethical compliance team and any risk areas verified as required. The factory site is then graded using the traffic light format opposite.

A site graded as Amber will only be on-boarded if the audit is not out of date past 1 year and all the non-compliances have been closed on the submitted conducted. A new audit is then required during the second season and re-graded accorded to risk.. If the site is unable to provide an audit within the 12 months it will be graded red and no longer be a viable source. Sites graded red (or undisclosed facility) cannot be used.

"The compliance team have received 222 3rd party audits for the Group, between January 1st 2022 and December 31st 2022. From the information in the audits, non-compliances are categorised according to issue type, root cause and severity level and this is used to create the action plan proposed to the factory to work to resolve and close the issues highlighted in the reports/visit."