Social Value Model
At Shared Apprenticeships, we can deliver an innovative solution and additional benefit for contractors across all 5 themes of the government’s Social Value Model for public sector procurement.
1. Covid-19 Recovery
- Engaging with local schools across the region
- Helping to raise aspirations
- Employing young people from the local community
2. Tackling Economic Inequality
- Creating new jobs
- Creating new skills through apprenticeships
- Engaging with organisations that deliver inspirational activities such as job shops, bootcamps, careers events, and work experience
- Advertising vacancies in the local area
- Interviewing local people (typically aged 16-25 years)
- Making it easy for main contractors as well as the supply chain to support an apprentice (through Shared Apprenticeships)
3. Fighting Climate Change
- Most of our apprenticeships incorporate sustainability and environmental considerations.
- Minimising travel pollution by:
- Keeping our apprentices local, working on construction sites as near as possible to their hometown
- Sourcing a local college or specialist provider for our apprentices with many able to attend on block release
- Funding a saver Railcard for those apprentices able / wanting to travel by train instead of driving
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4. Equal Opportunity
- Engaging with organisations which focus on addressing equality, diversity and inclusion in the industry – e.g., Building People
- Employing apprentices from a wide variety of backgrounds, regardless of race, religion, or gender for example
- Providing a dedicated mentor for support and guidance from day 1
- Providing academic supervision to oversee achievement through to completion and onward progression
5. Wellbeing
- Providing a dedicated mentor
- to monitor the general health and wellbeing of our apprentices
- with a Mental Health First Aider qualification to be alert to the mental health of our apprentices
- with an Enhanced DBS check and Safeguarding qualification to be alert to the welfare of our mostly teenage apprentices
- Providing a Dedicated Safeguarding Lead as part of our HR Management
- Level 3 qualified to ensure a clear escalation process if required
- Providing academic supervision
- to minimise any challenges with studying, whether due to academic or mental health pressures
- Ensuring recognised Health & Safety training
- Basic awareness and overview covered during Induction
- All apprentices complete external Health & Safety training on starting with us
- External training includes Asbestos Awareness
- We collaborate with contractors where other training opportunities arise
- Keeping our apprentices local wherever possible
- to minimise travel times
- to maintain at-home support outside working hours
- to strengthen ties with the community impacted by the build