Decarbonising carbon-intensive materials
The Supply Chain Sustainability School (SCSS) is a valuable resource that provides learning opportunities for individuals and organisations seeking to deepen their understanding of environmental, social, and economic sustainability practices.
As a partner to the Supply Chain Sustainability School, we recognise how the School helps drive change across our industry as well as sharing best practice and upskilling our employees and supply chain partners on a range of key topics such as carbon management and modern slavery.
Throughout 2024, our employees and supply chain partners made extensive use of the School participating in over 4,500 workshops and completing over 8,500 e-learning modules across 17 sustainability-linked topics.
We also collaborated with the School to develop a programme for our Scottish supply chain partners to improve their sustainability capabilities and understanding. The Bronze pathway focuses on the fundamentals of sustainability using resources from the Supply Chain Sustainability School. Five partners successfully completed the pilot and will advance to the Silver pathway in 2025.
We updated our Construction Line pre-qualification process to ensure all supply chain partners had a modern slavery statement by December 2024. We developed an easy and informative tool to carry out modern slavery audits with our suppliers at their premises, enabling them to either update or create their own Modern Slavery Statement.
We provided training for our procurement team on how to conduct modern slavery audits and used the audit report to signposts suppliers to the free information and resources available within the Supply Chain Sustainability School.
Find out more about the Supply Chain Sustainability School at supplychainschool.co.uk
