Transcript Challenges - allocation and transfer of risk

working in partnership with
Beyond philanthropy
Emily Davies and Richard Fryer, 7th June 2013
Corporate Sustainability
Where to focus community
engagement?
• Contract values
• Contract resources
• Client priorities
• Local Demand
• Local Supply
Routes to creating social impact
INPUTS
OUTPUTS
OUTCOMES
IMPACTS
Routes to
creating
Social
Impact
1. ADDED VALUE
( To community
and charitable
groups)
2. EMPLOYEE
VALUE
(To Amey
employees)
3. BUILT IN VALUE
(To the
client/customer)
4. INDIRECT
VALUE
(to businesses in
local community)
5. VALUE TO ALL
(to all that live,
work and visit)
Examples
• Charitable
support: cash
donation,
volunteering,
benefits-inkind
• Amey
Foundation
• Community
Involvement
Days
• Employee
engagement &
wellbeing
• Learning and
Development
Talent Tracker
• Amey
Academies
• Structured work
placements –
school students,
trainees,
apprentices,
technicians,
students,
graduates
• Community
stewards and
engagement with
community
groups to
optimise works
• Local / SME
supply chains
• Up-skilling
supply chains
• Social
enterprise
supply chains
• 3rd Sector
partnerships to
support
delivery of
services
• Contracts with
social
outcomes i.e.
prisons
• Designing low
carbon cities
• Creation of
Social
Enterprises
utilising client
assets
Areas of
Focus
EDUCATION , SKILLS & EMPLOYMENT, ENVIRONMENT
Birmingham Highways
Maintenance and Management Service
• 25 year, £2.7bn highways maintenance contract for Birmingham City
Council
• The largest and most complex contract of its type in Europe
• Amey responsible for every street, footway and associated asset
(e.g. street lights, trees, tunnels, bridges, signs, etc) in Birmingham
• The contract employs
• 550 people directly (of whom 265 TUPE transferred from BCC and
other service providers)
• and 1000 indirectly, when taking account all subcontractors
.
1. Young people and skills
•
•
Business and local needs centred around young
people, developing skills, ageing workforce
To date, recruitment of:
• Approx. 100 long-term unemployed
• 33 apprentices, 6 graduates
• 1 full time Duke of Edinburgh youth worker
• Positive relationship with trade unions
• Over 250 employees improved skills qualifications in
Literacy, Numeracy and IT.
• Commitment of £15,000 towards a new purpose built
on-site academy at our Bordesley Green depot
•
BHMMS bid end of March 2013 – in partnership with unions and SCCB - to UK
Commission for Employment and Skills for ‘Employer Ownership of Skills Pilot’ for
development of ‘Amey Highways Academy’
• Pre-employment skills for school students and long-term unemployed
• Enhanced apprenticeship programme, open to our sub-contractors
• New, bespoke suite of training modules for all operatives, open to our sub-contractors
• Notified if successful July.
2. Impact upon the local economy
• 90% of our suppliers have
operations in the local area
• 88% of focused spend targeted
with suppliers in Birmingham and
the West Midlands
• Use of local social enterprises as part of supply chain wherever
possible e.g.
- Lifework – footway construction
- Jericho – catering and bespoke printing
- The Scrapstore – donation of waste to be reused as children's play
equipment
• Example: Supporting suppliers to achieve RoSPA Gold
3. Approach going forward
• Aim to leave a legacy – so that after we’ve gone the impact and action
stays
• Aim to lever greater action – such as training the supply chain on
sustainability
• It’s got be win, win, win – best for the community, best for the client,
best for the business
Examples:
a) BCC Bridge initiative - 17 BHMMS employees used their
Community Involvement Day to undertake mock-job
interviews and CV writing skills for 73 BCC workers at risk
of redundancy throughout March 2013.
b) Queen Alexandra College in Harborne - leading national
college for the visually impaired and / or disabled.
Currently in discussions to design, build and operate a
typical street scene on their site to help train students to
travel and manage the outside environment.
c) Currently in discussions with Birmingham Community
Healthcare NHS Trust, Balsall Heath Forum, WM Police
and Princes Trust