- Councils for Fair Tax Declaration
- Living Wage Accredited Council
- Charter Against Modern Slavery
- Care Experience Protected Characteristic
Councils for Fair Tax Declaration
Councillors across the UK work hard to serve their local communities and help direct the delivery of essential public services. By signing up to the Councils for Fair Tax Declaration below, councils can demonstrate alignment with their values and encourage responsible tax practice through:
>leading by example on their tax conduct
>demanding to know who owns and profits from businesses the council buys from – UK and overseas – and their full financial reports
>joining calls for UK public procurement rules to change so that councils can do more to tackle tax avoidance and award points to suppliers that demonstrate responsible tax conduct.
Sign up here: https://fairtaxmark.net/supporters/councils-for-fair-tax/
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Co-operatives UK is the network for Britain’s thousands of co-operatives. We work together to promote, develop and unite member-owned businesses across the economy. From high street retailers to community-owned pubs, fan-owned football clubs to farmer-controlled businesses, co-operatives are everywhere and together they are worth £38bn to the British economy. Owned and run by their members, Co-operatives UK connects businesses that give people more control over the things that matter to them.
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Unlimited Potential specialises in social innovation – creating new solutions to social and economic problems with local people and communities. We use our innovation process to respond to the challenges of large organisations. Engaging with the strengths of citizens and communities, especially those who are disadvantaged and marginalised, we also draw on research from a range of disciplines to enhance impact. We are happy to explore any challenge, and to see how it might be reframed and then addressed in different ways to create new low-cost solutions.
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Living Wage Accredited Council
Living Wage accreditation is the best place to start for organisations wanting to demonstrate their commitment as a responsible employer. By paying the real Living Wage, employers voluntarily take a stand to ensure their employees can earn a wage that is enough to live on. That fundamental fairness is at the heart of what the Living Wage campaign is trying to achieve and why great businesses and organisations choose to go further than the government minimum. As well as it being the right thing to do, a growing body of evidence demonstrates the business benefits of becoming a Living Wage Employer.
Visit the Living Wage Foundation website and employer map.
Sign up here: https://www.livingwage.org.uk/accredit
Charter Against Modern Slavery
Councils across England and Scotland are leading the way with a new Charter to ensure exploitation has no place in council supply chains. The Co-operative Party’s Charter Against Modern Slavery goes further than existing law and guidance, committing councils to proactively vet their own supply chain to ensure no instances of modern slavery are taking place.
The term ‘Modern Slavery’ captures a whole range of types of exploitation, many of which occur together. These include but are not limited to:
>Sexual exploitation
>Domestic servitude
>Forced labour
>Criminal exploitation
Sign up here: https://party.coop/local/councillors/modern-slavery-charter/
Care Experience Protected Characteristic
Considering Care Experience in Equality Impact Assessments will deliver a whole council approach to creating policy that takes account of how council services can support children in care, not only positively impacting on their lives but also breaking the cycle of stigma, disadvantage & potential cost to society (crime, anti-social behaviour etc) faced by those children.
This is about more than having a Corporate Parenting Strategy. If we can get this right, we’ll not only build a better world for those children who grow up in care, but we will also benefit from their experiences to support future generations who grow up in care.
Our ambition for #IYC2025 is that all #coopcouncils commit to making Care Experience a protected characteristic. Together, we can build a better world & break the cycle of disadvantage for young people in care.
To find out more contact Katie Flint – KFlint@swindon.gov.uk
