All of our partners have signed up to the Code of Practice Ethical Employment in Supply Chains which seeks to tackle modern slavery, human rights abuses, blacklisting, false self-employment, unfair use of umbrella schemes and zero hours contracts.

The Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act creates a framework to enhance the well-being of the people of Wales by improving public services through social partnership working, promoting fair work and socially responsible public procurement.

In addition, safeguarding vulnerable people is key priorities across all of our partners and we need to ensure our suppliers and contractors understand and accept that safeguarding children and adults at risk from harm is everybody’s responsibility.

We aim to support this by:

• Ensuring that tenderers and contractors are aware of our commitment to working with organisations that will support us to meet equality, fair work and safeguarding duties.
• Using our tendering process to ensure that our suppliers and contractors are committed to supporting us to deliver our equality, fair work and safeguarding duties.
• Working with our suppliers and contractors to ensure that they promote fair work practices and safeguarding within their organisation and supply chain.