Cross 8 Limited
Business Analysis
Our Agile Business Analysis service provides requirements elicitation, business processes modelling, and change impact assessments. It unlocks benefits by ensuring all parties have a thorough understanding of the change. We use a small number of highly effective people to help you drive delivery, while simultaneously building your internal capability.
Features
- BCS trained business analysts with extensive experience and knowledge
- Detailed user research and development of user stories
- "As is" and "To be" process analysis, assessment and documentation
- Expert requirements elicitation via multiple methods to ensure complete picture
- Agile (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe); Prince2, PMBOK, MSP; Lean Six-Sigma
- Fluent business case development and compelling presentation
- Business Process Modelling (BPM) to identify process improvement opportunities
- Produces change impact assessments to inform business change function
- Focused on business problems and solutions not just technological answers
- Business Analysis for Operational Technology transformations: UPS battery, smart meters
Benefits
- Strategic level business analysis allows selection of optimal solution options
- Increases certainty of delivering programme outcomes and realising benefits
- Build a better understanding of user requirements, stories and backlog
- Fast onboarding with little learning curve due to broad expertise
- Deliver effectively regardless of methodology: agile, waterfall or hybrid
- Maximise requirements traceability through best practice capture and description
- Increase change adoption by ensuring solutions are aligned to users
- Clear business cases to ensure the right changes are delivered
- Build an internal capacity by best practice knowledge sharing
- Reduces dependency on externals by designing handover from the start
Architecture roles
Business architect
| £260.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £1,150.00 |
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Data architect
| £260.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £1,150.00 |
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Enterprise architect
| £510.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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Network architect
| £510.00 |
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| £510.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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Security architect
| £260.00 |
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| £510.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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Solution architect
| £510.00 |
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| £510.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £1,150.00 |
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Technical architect
| £510.00 |
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| £510.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £1,150.00 |
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Cyber security roles
Cyber security governance and risk management
| £510.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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Data roles
Data analyst
| £260.00 |
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| £510.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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Data engineer
| £260.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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Data governance manager
| £950.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £1,150.00 |
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Performance analyst
| £510.00 |
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| £510.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £1,150.00 |
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IT operations roles
Business relationship manager
| £510.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £1,150.00 |
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Change and release manager
| £510.00 |
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| £510.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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IT service manager
| £510.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £1,150.00 |
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Incident manager
| £510.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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Problem manager
| £510.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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Service desk manager
| £260.00 |
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| £510.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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Service transition manager
| £510.00 |
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| £510.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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Product and delivery roles
Business analyst
| £260.00 |
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| £510.00 |
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| £510.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £1,150.00 |
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Delivery manager
| £510.00 |
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| £510.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £1,150.00 |
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Digital portfolio manager
| £510.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £1,150.00 |
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Programme delivery manager
| £1,150.00 |
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Quality assurance testing (QAT) roles
Quality assurance testing (QAT) analyst
| £260.00 |
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| £510.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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Test engineer
| £260.00 |
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| £260.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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Test manager
| £510.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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User-centred design roles
Technical writer
| £260.00 |
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| £260.00 |
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User researcher
| £260.00 |
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| £260.00 |
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| £260.00 |
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| £510.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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| £950.00 |
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Non-mandatory Standards and certifications
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ISO/IEC 27001 certification
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No
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ISO 28000:2022 certification
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No
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ISO 9001 certification
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Yes
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Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification
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Qualitas Veritas
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ISO 9001 accreditation date
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Friday 17 January 2025
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What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover
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Product quality
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Quality management systems (QMS)
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Yes
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CSA STAR certification
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No
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PCI certification
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No
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Cyber essentials
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Yes
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Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number
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Cfe3d298-8fa4-4292-ba37-0c3023420cc4
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Cyber essentials plus
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Yes
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Please provide your Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number
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E9799e5b-6cee-4072-a7a5-88a7e0d0a506
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Other security certifications
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No
Social value
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Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery
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Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.
Policy Outcome 1: Fair work: That offers fair wages and good working conditions. Help people get a job, stay in work, and progress in their careers, with good employment opportunities across the country. Notes: Where there is a large proportion of labour costs in the contract, commercial teams should consider MAC in Outcome 1 as a priority
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New or retained jobs on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b, 1c and 1d
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Providing opportunities for, and measuring and monitoring of, staff workforce conditions over time, including employee engagement, involvement in decision-making and satisfaction and adapting to any changes in the results, with clear processes for acting on issues identified
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Monitoring of employee engagement rates (by protected characteristic) and, where necessary, the development of actions to ensure all voices are heard across the diversity of the workforce
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Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about, and feel empowered to, address their physical wellbeing
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Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about and feel empowered to report and address bullying and harassment
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Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
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Entitlement to sick pay for the contract workforce, with provision in place for any staff who do not meet the earnings threshold for statutory sick pay, payment of sick pay from day one of absence and payment of staff on the contract workforce who are off sick a replacement income of 100% of their usual earnings for as long as possible
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Support for the contract workforce by providing career advice, and providing opportunities for staff working on the contract with in-work progression career development into known skills shortages or high growth areas
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Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
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Volunteering opportunities for staff
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Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.
Policy Outcome 2: Skills for growth: Supporting growth sectors and addressing skills gaps.
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Understanding of employment and relevant skills issues, and of the education and training issues relating to the contract. Illustrative examples: demographics, skills shortages, new opportunities in high growth sectors, geographic/local community and skills/employment challenges
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Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
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Activities to support relevant sector related skills growth and sustainability in the contract workforce. Illustrative examples: careers talks, curriculum support, literacy support, safety talks and volunteering
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Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.
Policy Outcome 3: Resilient, innovative and flexible supply chains: Support economic growth through enabling resilient businesses, opportunities for small businesses and voluntary, community and social enterprises
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Activities that demonstrate a collaborative way to work with a diverse range of businesses as part of the supply chain
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Understanding of local demographics, needs and opportunities for the co-design of the goods, services and works to be delivered under the contract
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Methods for engaging with different parts of the community (including the education system and charities representing the community) and how communities come together to inform decisions, strategy and projects to leave a positive legacy for future generations
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Measures to involve local stakeholders and/or users in design (e.g. in the design of services, systems, products or buildings)
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Measures to engage users and communities and build relationships to increase community integration build trust and influence how the contract is delivered
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Plans to respond flexibly and adapt approaches to community engagement and initiatives
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Mission: Make Britain a clean energy superpower: To cut bills, create jobs and deliver security with cheaper, zero-carbon electricity by 2030, accelerating to net zero
Policy Outcome 4: Sustainable procurement practices: Reducing carbon footprints, minimising waste, and promoting the use of clean energy and green technologies.
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Understanding of how to influence staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders through the delivery of the contract to support climate and nature protection and improvement
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Activities to reconnect people with the environment and increase awareness of ways to protect and enhance it
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Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain
Policy Outcome 6: Employment and training: For those who face barriers to employment
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Working conditions which promote an inclusive working environment and promote retention and progression
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Understanding of the issues affecting inequality in employment, skills and pay in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors. Measures to tackle inequality in employment, skills and pay in the contract workforce
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Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain
Policy Outcome 7: Creating a pipeline of opportunities: For the contract workforce, reducing barriers to entry for under-represented groups.
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Understanding of issues relating to entering the contract workforce
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Mission: Build an NHS fit for the future: That is there when people need it; with fewer lives lost to the biggest killers; in a fairer Britain, where everyone lives well for longer.
Policy Outcome 8: Increasing productivity through physical and mental wellbeing: In the supply chain and communities in the relevant area.
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Understanding of issues relating to health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health, in the contract workforce
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Actions to invest in the physical and mental health and wellbeing of the contract workforce
Service documents
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