Outcome 2: A fair and inclusive city

This outcome is about:

• supporting equality, diversity and inclusion for all people with protected characteristics
• ensuring everyone is supported to have a home, job/role and social network

Example outputs

Outputs are measurable activities that the supplier will undertake in order to deliver a specific outcome. Some examples could be:

• actions to increase representation of disabled people within the contract workforce (to become a disability confident employer)
• actions to identify inequalities in employment skills and pay within the contract workforce.
• offering employment and training opportunities for those facing barriers, located in deprived areas, or with a shortage in skills including:
  • the long-term unemployed
  • ex-offenders
  • people with disabilities.
• supporting disabled people to develop new skills that result in recognised qualifications.
• designating an individual or group as explicitly responsible for diversity, equity and inclusion and providing equality, diversity and inclusion training for staff and the supply chain
• upskilling hiring staff to recruit and attract more applicants for new jobs from diverse backgrounds and to create a more diverse workforce that is representative of the wider city community.
• producing an action plan to increase diversity in your workforce and in senior management, with specific, measurable diversity improvement goals that are reviewed by senior executives or your board of directors.
• improving recruitment practices to increase diversity in the contract workforce and increase diversity in senior management - for example:
  • actively recruiting through organisations or services that serve individuals from underrepresented populations
  • conducting analyses of job description language and requirements to ensure they are inclusive
  • not asking about any custodial sentences served in the application process
• offering healthy workplace schemes
• supporting BHCC prevention campaigns by amplifying education and publicity campaigns
  • for example support staff/residents/service users to stop smoking/increase their physical activity/access money advice/achieve a healthy weight).
• signing the Armed Forces Covenant
• taking steps to to develop a more inclusive workforce - for example by employing:
  • armed forces veterans
  • those with experience of homelessness
  • survivors of modern slavery
  • mothers returning to work
  • young people who have spent time not in education, employment or traininge
  • 16-25-year-old care leavers
  • young offenders/ex-offenders
  • disabled people 

This outcome is about creating initiatives to promote personal safety and security.

Example outputs

Outputs are measurable activities that the supplier will undertake in order to deliver a specific outcome. Some examples could be:

• ensuring staff and/or volunteers have access to appropriate training to enable them to ‘Ask and Act’ in relation to domestic abuse, sexual violence or other Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG)
  • specifically that staff have a basic understanding of the dynamics of these types of crimes and are able to respond to a disclosure sensitively and can access a referral pathway to facilitate referrals to appropriate local and national services
• initiatives for staff, that prevent bullying or sexual exploitation
• initiatives to enable safe travel to work
• initiatives that ensure the service can manage staff/ volunteers appropriately if they are a victim/survivor or perpetrator of domestic abuse and sexual violence or other types of VAWG
• taking action to identify and manage modern slavery in the delivery of the contract (including the supply chain), beyond the production of a Modern Slavery statement
• offering training to local SMEs on matters of regulatory health and safety compliance

This outcome is about:

• influencing staff, suppliers, customers and communities to support strong integrated communities 
• collaborating with users and communities in the codesign & delivery of the contract to support strong integrated communities

Example outputs

Outputs are measurable activities that the supplier will undertake in order to deliver a specific outcome. Some examples could be:

• increasing the resilience of cultural organisations through the supplier’s senior staff becoming trustees or board members
• supporting projects to reduce social isolation and improve residents' connection with nature
• increasing the skills of cultural organisations by offering access to training and development opportunities, including sharing case studies/good practice
• volunteering with local community projects
• providing free use of company facilities to host local community events
• granting equity or ownership in the company to a local non-profit organisaton
• employer-supported volunteering programmes
• supporting staff who are carers, care experienced, or with multiple protected characteristics relating to a disability or ethnicity
• offering discounted products or services to qualified underserved groups