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CCS Prospectuses - RM6240 Supplier Prospectus - Public Sector Legal Services Lot 1,2,3

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Back to Lot 1 contents BURGES SALMON LLP Social Value At Burges Salmon, we deliver social value through our long-standing commitment to operating as a responsible business. This is core to our firm’s strategy, purpose and culture. Our purpose is to be an ambitious, sustainable and inclusive firm that ensures our clients, our people and our wider communities flourish. Within this, we also strive for best practice. Accordingly, we are a signatory to the UN Global Compact, a member of Business in the Community and have integrated the UN Sustainable Development Goals into our responsible business strategy. Our social value framework includes: • Wellbeing: private healthcare assessments, flu vaccinations, flexible and agile working, subsidised sports clubs and memberships, paid leave for volunteering • Mental Health: training a second cohort of Mental Health First Aiders within the firm, delivering mental health awareness training to all, employeeled wellness network (BWell) • Diversity & Inclusion: D&I leadership group, employee-led networks for gender (BBalanced), race (BCultured), disability (BEnabled) and sexual orientation (BProud) • Social Mobility: ‘blind recruitment’ process to attract a wider pool of talent from diverse backgrounds, the apprenticeship programme, Working with Schools programme to engage those from less advantaged backgrounds • Environment & Sustainable Communities: science-Based Carbon Targets approved for 50% carbon reduction by 2030, Net Zero legal expertise, all our offices are BREEAM Excellent rated buildings, 100% renewable electricity across all our sites, employee-led sustainability network (BSustainable) • Respect & Employment: accredited Living Wage Employer, we support and respect internationally recognised human rights in line with the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, legal advice on equality matters by our Employment team • Collaboration & Collective Impact: working with other businesses on the national leadership group and regional Board of Business in the Community, part of the Legal Sustainability Alliance and GC Forum for D&I SOCIAL VALUE HIGHLIGHTS • 52 mental health first aiders trained at the firm • firmwide and free roll-out of mental wellbeing app Headspace • Accreditation as a Disability Confident Leader • Employing 27 apprentices with the first cohort of solicitor apprentices qualifying in September 2023 • Set up diversity mentoring schemes with both the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England focused on legal and business career pipelines for disadvantaged and underrepresented students • Partnered with IntoUniversity to provide corporate mentoring opportunities for students based in the Edinburgh and Glasgow campuses • Partnered with music charity Bristol Beacon to organise a Burges Salmon talent show raising £23,000 to tackle food poverty in the community • Collaborated with Lawrence Weston Community Farm to establish a Burges Salmon beehive as part of a nature partnership Back to Lot 1 contents Back to main contents Back to main contents 6

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