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We engage with over a million people through the delivery of our services. Our work has a direct impact on the quality of their lives and we take that responsibility very seriously. We also invest in communities through the charity Elevate that we set up to improve the lives of young people from inner-city areas |
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We will seek to involve our customers in identifying the goals for our business activities and involve them and our clients in shaping future services |
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We will employ local people wherever possible and seek to reflect the diversity of the communities we work in throughout our organisation |
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We will strive to ensure that access to our services is open to all potential customers |
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We will procure our supplies and sub-contractors locally, wherever possible and actively encourage them to implement positive equalities policies |
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We will encourage the development of partnership working with the charity and voluntary sector |
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We will reduce our impact on the environment by encouraging recycling amongst our clients and customers, decreasing the amount of waste we produce, and tackling our vehicle emissions |
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We will use environment-friendly products wherever possible |