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Procurement/ Purchasing: Section 3, Technical training and audit: 'Our technical managers have undergone training on ethical performance and due diligence and are provided with the tools they need to record basic observations relating to core labour principles during every site visit.These tools also provide an escalation procedure to our Head of Responsible Sourcing for anything that causes concern. '

Leadership: Section 3, Technical training and audit: 'Our technical managers have undergone training on ethical performance and due diligence and are provided with the tools they need to record basic observations relating to core labour principles during every site visit. ' People in leadership (Operations Directors, Operation Managers, General Managers) also undertake the general training program.

Employees: Section 3, Subsection 3, Guests: 'We take the potential issue of child or adult exploitation (sexual or otherwise) very seriously. We recognise that there is a risk (as with all hospitality companies) that one of our hotels might be used for the sexual exploitation of adults or children, or the harbouring / movement of adults and children for the use of forced labour. Whilst we recognise that this is a risk which we cannot always directly control, there are some actions we can take (including training) to make sure that our own team members are properly trained to spot the signs of exploitation and empowered to act on any suspicions quickly and effectively. There was additional training regarding raising awareness of childhood exploitation. This training is only specific to hotel staff, not to the staff of Whitbread cafes, nor for their contractors etc.

Training provided- not specified: Section 3, Subsection 3, Modern Slavery training across our Operations: 'Continuing our partnership with Stop The Traffik, we developed a training programme for team members working across our hotel sites. The training was delivered through a series of working groups, supported by an elearning module and focused on raising awareness of human trafficking and modern slavery, empowering our teams to identify indications of human trafficking abuse in our sites and provide them with the tools to report it quickly and effectively.'

This training is 'completed by team members working all over the country, including our Operations Directors, Operations Managers, General Managers and team members'

In development: Section 3, Subsection 3, Further training planned for FY 18/19: 'Due to the success of our team member training across Premier Inn operations, we are scheduling a roll out across all remaining operations teams in our Restaurant brands and Costa stores.

We are also developing training across our HR function to include a toolkit and guidance on interviewing potential victims and spotting the signs that someone may be in a vulnerable situation. We look forward to reporting progress in next year’s report.'

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p6 "As outlined in the past two years’ reports, we continue to provide ethical performance and due diligence training to our FB technical team to enable them to embed a high level ‘temperature check’ of our suppliers’ ethical performance in their regular supplier visits and audits. This training has provided with the tools they need to record basic observations relating to core labour principles during every site visit. These tools also provide an escalation procedure to our Head of Responsible Sourcing for anything that causes concern. We have found that this additional check control process has increased collaboration between the two different teams and better understanding of our suppliers." Bernadette[https://wikirate.org/Bernadette].....2019-08-12 00:50:15 UTC "Modern Slavery training Recognising the risk that our hotels could be used as locations for trafficked individuals to be harboured or exploited, we have taken steps to empower our team members to respond in the right way if they suspect that so...

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This year we have reviewed and updated our modern slavery online (e

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learning) training content

which is mandatory for all team members joining the business.4

 

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empowering our teams to identify indications of human trafficking abuse in our sites and provide them

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Lastly, we have completed similar face

to face training workshops for all of our Human Resources

(HR) teams, including shared services, resourcing, operations, employee relations and leadership.5