FMJ Facilities Management magazine providing industry-specific intelligence to FM and property professionals
The soft services provider has reinforced its commitment to creating inclusive and equitable employment pathways for disadvantaged groups by signing the 2024 Social Recruitment Covenant.
Created by recruitment and training provider PeoplePlus, the Social Recruitment Covenant is a collaborative national programme, designed to promote social mobility by encouraging organisations to adopt more inclusive hiring practices.
It advocates that by understanding social value in recruitment and employment practices, businesses can increase social mobility and create organisations that better reflect the communities they operate within. This includes focusing on young people not in employment education or training, carers, the long-term unemployed, ex-offenders and disabled people.
The covenant will help develop SBFM’s Evolve initiative, which has provided targeted training and development opportunities for individuals facing barriers to employment. SBFM partners with its clients, called Evolve Partners, and its charitable partners to identify opportunities. Last year 196 candidates were placed in roles through SBFM’s social referral partners including the Shaw Trust and Reed in Partnership.
Evolve then trains and provides long-term, catered employment opportunities for candidates, which include, for example, scaled reintegration and training for prisoner recruits following their release, and detailed video tutorials for disabled employees.
Matt Chapman, CEO at SBFM, said: “Joining the Social Recruitment Covenant is an important step towards our ongoing commitment to building a more inclusive workforce. The covenant will provide a structured framework to amplify our efforts, to ensure that we can offer meaningful opportunities to individuals who have been historically overlooked.”
The signing of the Social Recruitment Covenant closely follows SBFM’s recent signing of the Crisis Homelessness Covenant which contains a set of pledges and guides to support people at risk of or experiencing homelessness in the workplace.
Managing incoming deliveries in facilities, whether for a retail business, a corporate office, residential complex or healthcare facility, requires a seamless flow to ensure efficiency and security.
Software development and logistics consultancy, ZoneManager, has launched a quick and easy survey to learn how your sites are managing their inbound deliveries, the issues that delivery management systems could help solve and get an idea of the most likely sites that might require a delivery management solution. This will help ZoneManager determine the top priorities for FMs when choosing a delivery management option.
Feel free to remain anonymous if you’d prefer not to divulge your personal and business details. But if you do choose to leave your details – there’s a chance to win a £150 Restaurants Favourite Gift Voucher.
To take part in the survey click here.
