Ethical policies

Ethical Trade and Human Rights Policy Position Statement: Our Ethical Trade and Human Rights Policy Position Statement provides details on how we ensure that the people and communities providing the products and services we buy and sell are treated fairly, and that their fundamental human rights are protected and respected.

Trading With Illegal Settlements, Occupied Territories or Undetermined Settlements: This Policy sets out the circumstances under which we will withdraw trade from a state, area or settlement, where there is a broad international consensus that its status is illegal or undetermined.

Sourcing Policy Statement: International Conflict, Human Rights Abuses and Violation of International Law: This Policy sets out the circumstances under we will stop sourcing from countries where the international community has identified serious risks of community-wide human right abuses and violation of international law.

Sound Sourcing Code of Conduct (SSCC): The workplace and employment standards that we expect of all our suppliers are set out in our Sound Sourcing Code of Conduct (SSCC). The SSCC is based on the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) Base Code and core international labour standards, and includes checks on forced labour and modern slavery.

Sustainable Procurement and Supplier Policy (SPSP): This sets out the sustainability and ethical standards we expect of our suppliers of goods and services not for resale (GNFR), including on labour standards in our supply chain. The SPSP is part of the ethical due diligence checks we carry out when sourcing GNFR.

Supplier Guide to Ethical Trade: Our commitments on ethical trade, human rights and modern slavery are set out in a number of policies and protocols. These guide the recruitment and behaviour of our colleagues, our purchasing of products and services, and our relationships with suppliers and partners.

Read more on the Co-op Food website about : our food ethical trading programme.

Read more about: our work to tackle modern slavery, our sustainability reportingor our gender and ethnicity pay gap reporting.