Academy
Our Academy combines procurement, supply chain, tax, legal and temporary workforce specialists from the Construction sector to drive better practices into the industry. These unique skills combined with our passion to always do better mean we are always pushing the boundaries of what is possible.
We support our clients and their supply chains to lead the industry into a new era of ethical labour practices.
Workforce Assured cannot achieve its goal of creating better employment practices for the UK construction sector without offering services to support the supply chain, especially employment intermediaries who are a critical function to our sector. We have developed a range of tools, materials and services which help each part of the labour supply chain raise their game.
Training for all tiers
Developers/asset owners & principal contractors
Training designed for companies with little to no direct temporary labour but large volumes in the sub-supply chain
Contractors
Contractors with temporary workers paid directly, via agencies and in sub-supply chains
Agencies & umbrellas
Employment businesses that process temporary workers daily at volume and manage payroll suppliers
Workers
Site Toolbox talks and Stand downs about employment practices and worker rights
Annual membership
As part of an annual membership, our clients can draw on Workforce Assured’s time, expertise and managed services to support their needs as well as access our growing library of support materials. Our membership model operates on a time-spent basis rather than limits to different kinds of activity. Workforce Assured’s expertise across procurement, supply chain management and temporary labour provides clients with a wealth of experience and knowledge. Members will be able to engage Workforce Assured to deliver:
- In-house training
- Build and implementation of policies and procedures
- Outsourced procurement and onboarding of new supply chain members
- Develop internal procurement and compliance tools
- Internal and external audits and audit preparation
- Access to the Workforce Assured Helpline
- Support for client-facing and work-winning activitie
- Access to the Workforce Assured Library which contains training aids, case studies, legal cases, template documentation and other guidance
FAQ
For the accreditation, we conduct audits in person so that we can assess sensitive information without the need to use technology or the need to store the information. We never record personal or confidential data as part of the audit process.
Worker interviews are anonymous and we never ask or store personal information.
The worker compliance audits use a secure technology and process as we do process personal and sensitive information. Our client’s terms with the labour supply chain must support the audit activity. The passing of worker data in the labour supply chain is common and regularly built into the contractual practices.
Two tools is our specialist audit toolbox help client get beyond that single point in time audit which is achieve through the annual accreditation and help to test compliance on an ongoing basis. The are our Site Worker Interviews and Worker Compliance Audits.
Worker interviews can be a great tool for the subcontract supply chain to understand if they are maintaining compliance through their workforce and the sub tiers. By talking to workers, you can gauge how the workforce is being brought to a project and if they are being engaged fairly.
Worker Compliance Audits are ideal for contractors with labour agency or payroll intermediary suppliers. We carry out sample audits on pay slips, employment contracts, competency, insurance and right to work. Our technology enables us to complete this on mass assuring the largest of temporary workforces. This approach gives clients confidence that compliance is maintained throughout labour supply chains.
The accreditation process includes an action plan, which is drafted by Workforce Assured and includes guidance on the steps your business needs to take to pass and how you can achieve those steps. Your company can rectify any critical or major findings before a final audit result is assigned.
- WA is a specific standard relating to temporary labour management, which is not covered by the CAS.
- The CAS protocol is only designed for subcontractors and is unsuitable for agencies or payroll intermediaries.
- CAS auditors only require Health and Safety competencies to conduct an audit, and an IRCA lead auditor needs to review the audit. WA is built by experts in the temporary employment space, and auditors all have a temporary labour and employment practices background.
Our audits are all delivered in your head offices or a location of your choosing. You will be provided with an audit guide before you proceed, once you have been assigned an auditor they will be able to support any questions prior to your initial audit. You will have 5 days following the initial audit date to provide any outstanding documentation. You will then be provided with a report and audit outcome. Should you have any critical or major non-conformances, you will be given an action plan and be required to book a reassessment.
Our training and consultancy services via the Academy can be purchased through an annual membership package, or our services can be provided through individual statements of work.
Yes. The accreditation is a one-to-many share value model, meaning suppliers complete the process once and should not be requested to complete multiple duplicate audits for clients using the standard. All parties benefit from a shared model with reduces cost.
Customers can purchase a membership to the Academy or engage us for stand alone statements of work. We support clients with a broad range of services relating to ethical employment and labour management practices. These include building strategies and setting policies, building systems and governance, delivering training, and supporting working with winning.
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