Anti-slavery and human trafficking statement

Purpose of This Statement

Seraphine Limited, together with the other group entities referred to below (collectively, “Seraphine”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) are committed to trade ethically, sourceresponsibly and work to prevent modern slavery and human trafficking throughout our organisation and in our supply chain. This statement sets out the steps we have taken to understand potential modern slavery risks within our business structure and supply chain, as well as the steps taken to reduce these risks.

About Us

We are an international maternity wear business, headquartered in London, with retail stores in UK, France and the USA. To find out more about us, please see our website.

This statement applies to the following entities:

Seraphine Limited, with company number 04406761 and registered office address at 265 Tottenham Court Road 2nd Floor, London, Greater London, United Kingdom, W1T 7RQ;
Stork Acquisition Limited, with company number 10746329 and registered office address at 265 Tottenham Court Road, London, England, W1T 7RQ; and
Seraphine Group Limited, with company number 13454003 and registered office address at 265 Tottenham Court Road 2nd Floor, London, England, W1T 7RQ.

Our Supply Chain

We endeavour to procure only goods and services necessary for the purposes of performing our contracts with our customers, our suppliers, recruitment, management of our staff and provision of offices and facilities. We carry out the checks, appropriate to the risk, when engaging our suppliers, all of which we expect to operate to appropriate moral and ethical standards.

Our Policies

We have appropriate policies in place that underpin our commitment to ensure that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in our supply chain or in any part of our business. We regularly review and update all our policies.

We have policies and procedures in place relevant to tackling modern slavery, including policies addressing codes of business conduct, anti-bribery and corruption, and whistleblowing. Such policies and procedures are regularly reviewed and updated.

Due Diligence Processes

We understand that the following areas give rise to the highest modern slavery risks: supply chain and sourcing, manufacturing, labour recruitment, warehouse and distribution centres and retail operations[, and other third-party suppliers] – all the while considering any particular geographic risk areas.

As part of our initiative to identify and mitigate risk, we are registered as a Sedex member and undertake periodic Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audits to help us understand the standards of labour, health and safety, environmental performance and ethics within our operations, and bring insights on ways we can tackle slavery and human trafficking. Sedex uses the uses the following key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess how effective we have been in ensuring that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in any part of our business or supply chains:

Employment is freely chosen;
Responsible recruitment and entitlement to work;
Freedom of association and right to collective bargaining are respected;
Working conditions are safe and hygienic;
Child labour shall not be used;
Legal wages are paid;
Living wages are paid;
Working hours are not excessive;
No discrimination is practised;
Regular employment is provided;
Sub-contracting and homeworkers are used responsibly; and
No harsh or inhumane treatment is allowed.

In cases where we identify a potential risk, we take steps to monitor and reduce it by conducting the necessary due diligence and improving our procurement practices as much as possible.

Our risk management and procurement personnel engage with our suppliers to confirm that our vendors are adhering to our shared goals to trade ethically and source responsibly. To help identify and monitor the risk of slavery and human trafficking in our supply chain, we also:

encourage our staff to raise concerns about any issue or suspicion of modern slavery in any part of our business or supply chain at the earliest possible stage;
encourage openness and will support anyone who raises genuine concerns in good faith, even if they turn out to be mistaken. We are committed to ensuring no one suffers any detrimental treatment as a result of reporting in good faith their suspicion that slavery of whatever form is or may be taking place in any part of our own business or in any part of our supply chain.

Supplier adherence to our values and ethics

We have zero tolerance to slavery and human trafficking. [To ensure all those in our supply chain and contractors comply with our values and ethics, we have in place a supply chain compliance programme. This consists of: [OUTLINE PROGRAMME].]

[We have a dedicated compliance team, which consists of involvement from our legal, audit and compliance, human resources, procurement and sales departments.]

Training

To ensure a high level of understanding of the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking in our supply chains and our business, in particular, those with procurement responsibilities, we provide [regular] training to our staff and make available the policies mentioned above. [We also require our business partners to provide training to their staff, suppliers and providers.]