JOJO MAMAN BEBE LTD modern slavery statement summary (2024)

Organisation address

Ingate Works,
4 Ingate Place,
London,
United Kingdom,
SW8 3NS

We asked the organisation a series of questions about its modern slavery statement. Its answers are published on this page as a statement summary.

This statement provides information for all 6 recommended topics

What is a modern slavery statement?

UK law requires certain organisations to publish an annual modern slavery statement on their website, setting out the steps they are taking to address modern slavery risks in their operations and supply chains. Read more in the government guidance on publishing modern slavery statements.

Link to full statement

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About this statement summary

All answers relate to the financial year covered by the statement. The organisation is responsible for all the information it provided. Some of our questions are optional, so organisations may not have answered all of them. The statement summary does not replace the full modern slavery statement – below we provide a link to the full statement on the organisation’s website.

Contents

Legal requirement to publish

JOJO MAMAN BEBE LTD has confirmed it is required to publish a 2024 statement by law.

Statement period and sign-off details

The statement covers the following period:
1 February 2023 to 31 January 2024

The statement was signed off by:
Gwynn Milligan (CEO)

It was approved by the board (or equivalent management body) on:
4 October 2024

Recommended topics covered by the statement

Government guidance encourages organisations to cover a range of topics in their modern slavery statements, setting out the steps they’re taking to address modern slavery risks in their operations and supply chains. Read about the recommended topics in the statutory guidance.

We asked the organisation to tell us which topics its statement covers.

Topics recommended by government guidance	Organisation’s response
The organisation’s structure, business and supply chains	Covered
Policies	Covered
Risk assessment	Covered
Due diligence (steps to address risk)	Covered
Training about modern slavery	Covered
Goals and key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of the organisation's actions and progress over time	Covered

The organisation’s sectors and turnover

Sectors

The organisation operates in the following sectors:

• Fashion, textiles, apparel and luxury goods

Turnover

Its turnover in the financial accounting year of this statement was:

£36 million to £60 million

If the organisation is a public body, this amount is based on the organisation’s budget for the year of the statement.

What does 'turnover' refer to in group statements?

If this is a group statement, this includes the total turnover for all the organisations covered by the statement.

Number of years producing statements

The organisation has been producing modern slavery statements for the following number of years:

More than 5 years

How does this work for group statements?

If the statement is for a group of organisations, this answer applies to the organisation with the longest history of producing statements.

Policies (optional)

We asked the organisation whether its policies include the following provisions in relation to its domestic and international supply chains, as well as its own operations.

Policy provisions we asked about	Organisation’s response
Freedom of workers to terminate employment	Included
Freedom of movement	Included
Freedom of association	Included
Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation	Included
Prohibits the use of worker-paid recruitment fees	Included
Prohibits compulsory overtime	Included
Prohibits child labour	Included
Prohibits discrimination	Included
Prohibits confiscation of workers' original identification documents	Included
Provides access to remedy, compensation and justice for victims of modern slavery	Not included
Other	Not included

Training (optional)

We asked the organisation whether it provided training on modern slavery, and who it was for.

What counts as training?

We explained that by ‘training’ we meant anything designed to increase knowledge and skills around identifying, addressing or preventing modern slavery risks. This could range from formal training courses to broader awareness-raising activities such as workshops or webinars.

We asked who the training was for	Organisation’s response
Your whole organisation	No
Your front line staff	No
Human resources	Yes
Executive-level staff	No
Procurement staff	Yes
Your suppliers	No
The wider community	No
Other	No

Monitoring working conditions (optional)

Engaging with others

We asked the organisation to tell us who it engaged with to help monitor working conditions across its operations and supply chains.

We asked who the organisation engaged with	Organisation’s response
Your suppliers	Yes
Trade unions or worker representative groups	No
Civil society organisations	No
Professional auditors	Yes
Workers within your organisation	Yes
Workers within your supply chain	Yes
Central or local government	No
Law enforcement, such as police, GLAA and other local labour market inspectorates	No
Businesses in your industry or sector	No

Social audits

We asked the organisation to tell us about any social audits it used to look for signs of modern slavery.

What are social audits?

A social audit is a review of an organisation’s working practices from the point of view of social responsibility, and should include an evaluation of working conditions in the organisation’s operations and supply chains. By their nature, audits of supplier workplaces represent a snapshot in time.

Social audits we asked about	Organisation’s response
Audit conducted by your staff	No
Third party audit arranged by your organisation	Yes
Audit conducted by your supplier’s staff	No
Third party audit arranged by your supplier	No
Announced audit	No
Unannounced audit	Yes

Grievance mechanisms

We asked the organisation how workers in its operations or supply chains could raise concerns or make complaints.

Organisation’s response

The organisation told us there were no processes in its operations or supply chains for workers to raise concerns or make complaints.

Other ways of monitoring working conditions

We asked the organisation whether it had any other ways of monitoring working conditions across its operations and supply chains:

Organisation’s response

The organisation did not answer this question.

Modern slavery risks (optional)

Identifying modern slavery risks is a vital step towards eradicating it. The government encourages organisations to be as open and transparent as possible, to improve understanding, collaboration and best practice around tackling this worldwide problem.

We asked the organisation to describe up to 3 priority risks it focused on during the period of the statement, including details of the affected workers, the activity involved, and the location.

Priority risks for this organisation (1 of 3)

Migrant, agency and casual labour – often most at-risk individuals of exploitation.

Questions we asked about this risk	Organisation’s response
Where it was most likely to occur	Organisation’s response: Within your supply chains. Tier 1 suppliers Provide their products and services directly to your organisation. Tier 2 suppliers Provide products and services to your organisation via your Tier 1 suppliers. Tier 3 suppliers and below Provide products and services to your organisation via your Tier 2 suppliers or the next higher level in the chain.
Who was it most likely to affect	Organisation’s response: Women Migrants Refugees
In which country	Organisation’s response: China India Turkey
Actions or plans to address this risk	Organisation’s response: Effectively map Tier 2 – 4 of our own label manufacturing suppliers with topline information on name, address, and processes. Study patterns in non-compliances raised across our suppliers by region to understand commonalities, salient risks and local challenges taking into account type and frequency by region. Study the nature of our suppliers labour force – namely temporary / seasonal workers; home workers, migrant workers recruited through labour agencies, agency workers).

Priority risks for this organisation (2 of 3)

Supply chain risks involving countries and regions with alleged systematic exploitation of human rights

Questions we asked about this risk	Organisation’s response
Where it was most likely to occur	Organisation’s response: Within your supply chains. Tier 3 suppliers and below Provide products and services to your organisation via your Tier 2 suppliers or the next higher level in the chain.
Who was it most likely to affect	Organisation’s response: Women Migrants Refugees Children
In which country	Organisation’s response: China Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
Actions or plans to address this risk	Organisation’s response: Conduct a full review of our Responsible Sourcing policies to ensure they continue to be fit for purpose with the changing needs of our business ensuring they are robust enough to meet the challenges identified in our internal assessments. Effectively map Tier 2 – 4 of our own label manufacturing suppliers Grow options with a chain of custody - such as GOTS, GRS, FSC

Priority risks for this organisation (3 of 3)

Falsified records – where true information is hidden to present a better impression of the factory. We expect transparency from our suppliers on the true nature of their operations.

Questions we asked about this risk	Organisation’s response
Where it was most likely to occur	Organisation’s response: Within your supply chains. Tier 1 suppliers Provide their products and services directly to your organisation. Tier 2 suppliers Provide products and services to your organisation via your Tier 1 suppliers.
Who was it most likely to affect	Organisation’s response: Women Migrants Refugees
In which country	Organisation’s response: China India Turkey
Actions or plans to address this risk	Organisation’s response: Conduct a full review of our Responsible Sourcing policies to ensure they continue to be fit for purpose with the changing needs of our business ensuring they are robust enough to meet the challenges identified in our internal assessments. Roll out refreshed and longer-term communication and training strategy on ethical trading targets, policies, process and progress with our Tier 1 manufacturers, buying and wider teams, this will ensure our targets are known within our business.

Indicators of forced labour (optional)

We asked the organisation whether its statement refers to finding any International Labour Organization (ILO) indicators of forced labour.

What are ILO indicators of forced labour?

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has produced a list of the most common signs of forced labour. They’re based on the definition of forced labour as ‘all work or service which is extracted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily.’ More details and guidance are available on the ILO website, and in their publication ILO indicators of forced labour

Organisation’s response

The organisation told us its statement does not refer to finding any International Labour Organization (ILO) indicators of forced labour.

Demonstrating progress (optional)

We asked the organisation how its statement demonstrates progress over time in addressing modern slavery risks. They provided the following answer:

We have identified our salient risks both in our own businesses and externally and we have put in place actions for the next two years that are continually assessed and proportionate to the size of our organisation.