Zoom Phone Unified Communications UCaaS Platform
Zoom is an all-in-one collaboration platform that makes connecting easier, more immersive, and more dynamic for people and businesses. Our team chat, phone, meetings, omnichannel contact centre, whiteboard, workspace, and AI solutions help hybrid teams collaborate and get more done. UK based delivery and support.
Features
- AI-powered collaboration platform that streamlines your communications and improves productivity
- Artificial intelligence seamlessly embedded throughout the entire platform experience
- Simple video conferencing and messaging across all devices
- Comprehensive cloud phone system built for organizations of any size
- Instant messaging designed to simplify and accelerate user communications
- Employee experience platform driving stronger communication and engagement
- Integrated software room system for audio, video, and wireless sharing.
- Unified platform for creating virtual events, webinars, and digital experiences.
- Developer platform with 2,500+ ready-to-use integrations for seamless connectivity.
- UK based professional services and support
Benefits
- Unified cloud communication platform designed for simplicity and reliability
- AI Companion integrated across platform at no extra cost
- Single, centralised admin console enables fast deployment and effortless scalability
- Affordable subscription pricing with transparent licensing for all users
- Hundreds of updates delivered annually to enhance platform performance
- Intuitive interface ensures quick adoption and seamless user experience
- Powerful dashboards simplify administration and user activity reporting
- MSI management streamlines deployment of development releases efficiently
- Technical support available 365x24x7
- High-availability platform ensuring uninterrupted communication, collaboration, and continuity
Pricing
- Education pricing available
- Free trial available
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 15
Service ID
8 6 9 0 8 4 7 3 3 1 9 1 1 6 1
Contact
CLOUDCLEVR LIMITED
Dave Harrison
Telephone: 02030055066
Email: publicsector@cloudclevr.com
About your service
- Service categories
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Applications
Collaborative
- Enterprise community
- Team collaboration
Conferencing and virtual event
- Web Conferencing Applications
- Virtual Event Applications
- Multi cloud support
- No
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- No
- Cloud deployment model
- Public cloud
- Service constraints
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For planned maintenance, information is publicly available at Zoom Service Status for current status and maintenance for all Zoom services.
For hardware, Zoom have a publicly available compatibility list showing Vendor, firmware versions supported and end of life dates when known form the manufacturer. Other considerations to note:
>Desk phones must support TLSv1.2 to work with Zoom Phone.
>You must have the latest firmware version listed below for your device to work. Certified hardware list details the firmware versions and their release dates.
>To see firewall rules for zero-touch provisioning, refer to the firewall rules for Zoom Phone - System requirements
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- An internet connection – broadband wired or wireless
- A headset or speaker – USB plug-in or wireless Bluetooth
- A webcam or HD webcam built-in or USB plug-in (optional)
- HD cam or HD camcorder with video capture card
- Virtual camera software
- Windows 10 or later
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Yes
- Support response times
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Target response times are listed below and apply to our standard and extended support tiers. Other tiers of support are available including Enhanced, Premium and Premium+.
P1 - 4 hours.
P2 - 8 hours.
P3 - 16 hours.
P4 - 24 hours. - User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- WCAG 2.2 AA
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- No
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
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We offer several tiers of support - Standard, Extended, Enhanced, Premium and Premium+.
Standard covers working hours, between the hours of 9:00 AM and 5:30 PM GMT on Business Days.
Extended is 24x7.
CloudClevr’s experienced UK based technical support team is on hand to help resolve any customer issues. A dedicated account manager supported by our Customer Service team and other back office departments will support the customer and contract. - Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
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With any deployment training will be scoped and factored into the solution – training can include instructor-led sessions or self-paced e-learning through Zoom’s Learning Centre, a few educational platform where users can access courses that expand their knowledge on Zoom products. Users can enrol in short, interactive, on-demand courses, or quick help in learning a specific skill or feature using a collection of “Show Me” product videos. It’s continually enhanced and updated with the launch of new features and products.
Once customers are live on their Zoom solutions they are provided with proactive digital deliverables and recommended learning paths to help drive adoption and maximise their investment in Zoom. This approach enables faster response times with group knowledge for better and more efficient support.
Self Service Offerings include: Zoom Learning Center (Learn anytime, anywhere and expand your product knowledge), Zoom Community (get involved, become a leader, and connect with other Zoom users and customers), Zoom Support (find answers to your product questions in our many articles and training materials, or contact the support team for technical assistance), and Webinars (attend onboarding webinars to learn about best practices and get the latest information about the Zoom platform). - Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
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- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
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Upon contract termination, Zoom deactivates all user IDs related to the customer account and any saved data is deleted. Therefore, the customer will have to download any recorded meetings prior to their termination date by visiting their online user profile, navigating to their recordings and downloading selected recordings to an alternate source.
Zoom has a data retention standard that details how data is deleted when a customer terminates service (i.e., purged on day 31). Furthermore, our Data Protection Standard states how Zoom must sanitise media. Zoom has a process for records retention to ensure that Personal Information is retained for no longer than necessary to fulfil the obligations or meet legal retention requirements. - End-of-contract process
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Upon termination of the customer's contract, Zoom will deactivate all user IDs associated to that billing account and delete any saved recordings.
Zoom has a data retention standard that details how data is deleted when a customer terminates service (i.e., purged on day 31). Furthermore, our Data Protection Standard states how Zoom must sanitise media. Zoom has a process for records retention to ensure that Personal Information is retained for no longer than necessary to fulfil the obligations or meet legal retention requirements. - Documentation accessibility standard
- WCAG 2.2 AA
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
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- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari
- Opera
- Application to install
- Yes
- Compatible operating systems
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- Android
- IOS
- Linux or Unix
- MacOS
- Windows
- ChromeOS
- Other
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- Yes
- Differences between the mobile and desktop service
- Reduced functionality on Mobile with meetings. When on mobile, cannot save in-meeting chat, cannot start local recording, Cannot give remote control. Reduced in-meeting controls (participants and hosts) functions on Mobile. Reduced share screen controls on mobile.
- Service interface
- Yes
- User support accessibility
- WCAG 2.2 AA
- Description of service interface
- Zoom offers consolidated administration through the Zoom web portal, allowing account administrators to efficiently manage a geographically distributed organization from a single interface. End users can also access their setting via the same portal, which administrators can configure with granular controls. Customers often choose Zoom for the simplicity and intuitiveness of the Zoom web portal, enabling IT teams to quickly adopt automated workflows and integrate seamlessly with existing systems.
- Accessibility standards
- WCAG 2.2 AA
- Accessibility testing
- Zoom conducts accessibility testing for new features through an in-house team of dedicated accessibility professionals.
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
- The Zoom API is the primary means for developers to access a collection of resources from Zoom. Apps can read and write to the resources and mirror some of the most popular features available in Zoom Web Portal such as creating a new meeting, creating, adding and removing users, viewing reports and dashboards on various usage, and so on using the Zoom API. Depending on your app’s use case, you can choose from our various APIs and implement the features accordingly. All APIs under the Zoom API are based on REST architecture and are accessed via HTTPS at specified URLs. The base URL for all requests is https://api.zoom.us/v2/. The complete URL varies depending on the endpoint of the resource being accessed. For instance, you can list all users on an account via a GET request to this URL: https://api.zoom.us/v2/users/. Within our API reference pages, you can send test requests and view responses. You can also view the code for the request in various languages such as Python, Node, Java and more. With each release, we add additional APIs and enhancements to meet the needs of our customers.
- API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
- Other
- API sandbox or test environment
- Yes
- Customisation available
- Yes
- Description of customisation
- Zoom offers a number of opportunities to customise the service. Zoom’s App Marketplace brings together integrations, apps, and bots built by Zoom, third-party developers, and oftentimes our own customers, making it easy for Zoom users to extend the power of Zoom for any business need. The Zoom App Marketplace hosts over 2,500 apps and integrations for our solutions. In addition, Zoom’s APIs allow for a robust extension of the core Zoom product and apps can read and write to the resources and mirror some of the most popular features available in the Zoom Web Portal such as creating, adding and removing users, viewing reports and dashboards on various usage, and so on. Experienced developers can choose to leverage Zoom’s SDKs to incorporate the Zoom experience into their own application. Lastly, role-based access control enables the creation of custom user roles that have a set of permissions that allows access only to the pages a user needs to view or edit.
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- Zooms infrastructure accommodates growing customer needs and to meet peak usage requirements which supports billions of meeting minutes a month and is built to handle growing levels of activity. Zoom operates their own global network of data centres, in the event of capacity constraints at the data centre nearest a user, additional traffic will be routed to one of their other data centres. In the case of exponential demand Zoom can access and deploy tens of thousands of AWS servers within hours, and in full compliance with its Privacy Policy (zoom.us/privacy), to seamlessly scale without any impact to users.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
- The Zoom Dashboard allows account administrators to view information ranging from overall usage to live data relating to Zoom solutions. This data can be used to analyse issues that may have occurred as well better understand how users are interacting with the Zoom platform within your organisation.
- Reporting types
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- API access
- Real-time dashboards
- Regular reports
- Reports on request
- Resource tagging
- No
- FOCUS resource tagging
- No
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- Zoom
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Developed Vetting (DV)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
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- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- Other locations
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Datacentre security standards
- Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 4.0)
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Penetration testing approach
- Another external penetration testing organisation
- Protecting data at rest
- Physical access control, complying with SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Equipment disposal approach
- A third-party destruction service
- Data sanitisation type
- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation / Secure Erase
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- Reports, logs, and recordings can be exported via the Zoom web portal as required.
- Data export formats
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- CSV
- Other
- Other data export formats
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- MP4
- MP3
- VTT
- M4A
- JSON
- Data import formats
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- CSV
- Other
- Other data import formats
- SAML
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
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- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
- Other
- Other protection between networks
- Zoom’s unique architecture allows us to quickly and easily scale to meet demand. We maintain excess capacity in all aspects of our infrastructure to accommodate growing business, healthcare, and education needs and to meet peak usage requirements. Our proven infrastructure supports billions of meeting minutes a month and our architecture is built to handle growing levels of activity, as our unified communications platform is architected from the ground up to address the most technologically difficult aspect of communications: video. Our modern cloud architecture gives our platform its trademark reliability, quality, and scalability.
- Data protection within supplier network
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- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
- Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
- Other
- Other protection within supplier network
- Zoom follows OWASP standards to maintain robust internal security processes.
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- May include 99.9% uptime, excluding excused downtime (maintenance).
- Approach to resilience
- Zoom web services leverage AWS high availability infrastructure with multi-region configuration operating in Active/Standby mode. For real time communications, Zoom leverages multiple Tier 1 data centers running in Active/Active mode.
- Outage reporting
- Zoom posts any general incident announcement and other announcements including scheduled maintenance, outages, updates, through our status page at status.zoom.us. For incidents affecting a specific customer, Zoom will notify the account owner and administrator(s) through email or as specified in fully executed agreement.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
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- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Management interfaces are accessed via user name and password derived from integration via SSO or user name and password stored in a salted hash. Interfaces are accessed based upon role based access control (RBAC).
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
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- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- Between 6 months and 12 months
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- Between 6 months and 12 months
- How long system logs are stored for
- Between 6 months and 12 months
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
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- ISO/IEC 27001
- Other
- Other security governance standards
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CloudClevr - ISO 9001, ISO 20001, Cyber Essentials.
Zoom - Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essentials Plus, SOC2 Type 2, GDPR, TRUSTe Certified Privacy - Information security policies and processes
- Zoom's security policies are derived from the ISO 27001 framework.
- Software Security Code of Practice
- No
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
- Configuration and change management approach
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Change triggers for unique processes and controls are: Code, Database, Infrastructure, Data.
Weekly meetings held to request changes that need to be performed during maintenance windows. Change requests are presented, validated, and scheduled. Changes are approved by the Change Manager. Implementation in production should not be by the same individual who developed the change. When staffing levels do not permit this separation, management oversight and approval of the change and testing process ensure appropriate processes are followed. Dev and test environments are physically and logically segregated from production. No customer data is used in testing. - Vulnerability management type
- Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
- Vulnerability management approach
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Zoom has a formal Vulnerability Management Plan in place. Zoom performs monthly vulnerability and web application scanning using an external party (Qualys). Scan reports are reviewed by our Security and technical teams and discussed with the engineering and development teams. Validated findings are tracked in our JIRA system throughout remediation.
Zoom has a monthly patch cadence. Zoom will patch all applications, workstations, and servers (virtual or physical) with all current operating system, database, and application patches deployed in our computing environment according to a schedule predicated on the criticality of the patch. Maintenance/patching typically will have no service downtime. - Protective monitoring type
- Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
- Protective monitoring approach
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We have monthly vulnerability and web application scans. Findings are reviewed and validated by our technical and engineering team. Vulnerability rated on severity level and tracked using our JIRA system. Vulnerability fixes are release from our engineering team and follow our formal change management process for deployment to production. Zoom also has DDoS monitoring and Managed service in place. Affected traffic are diverted and filtered through a scrubbing centre.
Zoom responds to incidents as defined within our SOC2 report available upon execution of a mutual NDA. - Incident management type
- Complies with a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v4.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
- Incident management approach
- Zoom communicates the incident response policy to internal and external users and instructs users to contact their supervisor and the information security representative if they become aware of a possible security breach. When a potential security incident is detected, a defined incident management process is initiated by authorised personnel. Incidents are tracked through the tracking application, which includes the corrective actions implemented in accordance with the defined policies and procedures.
- Post-quantum cryptography secure
- Yes
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v4.0)
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Pricing
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
- We can provide a trial of the service that will be provided free of charge but there may be Professional Services associated to the set-up of the trial; these will be quoted by our specialist and will require signoff from the customer to accept the charges and set-up the service.
Discount percentage by annual call-off contract value (excluding VAT)
- Less than £250,000
- 0%
- Between £250,000 and £500,000
- 0%
- Between £500,001 and £1,000,000
- 0%
- Between £1,000,001 and £2,500,000
- 0%
- Between £2,500,001 and £5,000,000
- 0%
- Over £5,000,001
- 0%
Non-mandatory Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- Citation
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- Monday 29 September 2025
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
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The scope of the Management System applies to the following:-
The provision of IT services including managed services, support, security and assurance; communications solutions including connectivity, internet of things, mobiles, unified communications, contact centre; and a proprietary platform to deliver insights across technology estates.
Therefore anything outside of this defined scope is not covered by our ISO 27001 certification. - ISO 28000:2022 certification
- No
- ISO 9001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification
- Citation
- ISO 9001 accreditation date
- Tuesday 11 November 2025
- What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover
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The scope of the Management System applies to the following:-
The provision of IT services including managed services, support, security and assurance; communications solutions including connectivity, internet of things, mobiles, unified communications, contact centre; and a proprietary platform to deliver insights across technology estates.
Therefore anything outside of this defined scope is not covered by our ISO 9001 certification. - Quality management systems (QMS)
- Yes
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number
- A9e96c0e-e106-4d06-b9e9-1ba11de6322f
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Please provide your Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number
- Da4d742b-aee4-41b9-a65c-0b32438d0610
- Other security certifications
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
- ISO 20000-1 : 2018
Social value
- 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
- New or retained jobs on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b, 1c and 1d
- New apprenticeships on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b
- 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
- Plans to engage the contract workforce in deciding the most important workplace issues to address
- Ensuring new workers are informed of their right to join a trade union
- Employment contracts that reflect actual hours worked; steps taken to ensure employees understand their contracts and have the ability to review and adjust them if actual hours regularly exceed contracted hours
- Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about, and feel empowered to, address their physical wellbeing
- Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about and feel empowered to report and address bullying and harassment
- Activities to cascade good practice on fair working conditions throughout the supply chain
- Offer a pay and leave entitlement to all eligible staff who become kinship carers, ideally equivalent to statutory adoption pay and leave
- Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
- Monitoring and reporting of gender and ethnicity pay gaps and plans to address them where necessary
- 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
- Understanding of in-work progression issues affecting 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 support in-work progression to help people in the contract workforce, to move into higher paid work by developing new skills relevant to the contract
- 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
- Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
- Volunteering opportunities for staff
- Understanding of the modern slavery risks and issues affecting the market, industry, sector or country (of origin or of source) relevant to the contract, and the workforce in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key subcontractors
- Measures to identify, mitigate and manage modern slavery risks relating to the contract and how these will be implemented
- Outline policies and practices to be applied to or put in place for the contract to mitigate and manage modern slavery risks, including: Pre-employment checks, recruitment practices. Workplace conditions, safeguarding plans and processes in place and regular monitoring with relevant groups considered, which may include sampling
- How these flow down the supply chain and are monitored Illustrative examples include reporting, site visits, audits, etc.
- How to ensure business decisions re: price/cost, short lead times, payment timescales do not create modern slavery risks in the supply chain
- How the supplier will work with NGOs, trade unions or other businesses to address modern slavery risk
- Means of influencing staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders with respect to modern slavery risks relating to the contract
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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.
- 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
- Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
- 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
- Delivery of apprenticeships, supported internships and T Level industry placement opportunities (Level 2, 3 and 4+) in relation to the contract
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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
- Understanding of the types of businesses in the market and the level of participation by new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
- Activities that demonstrate a collaborative way to work with a diverse range of businesses as part of the supply chain
- Ensuring accessibility to contracting and subcontracting opportunities for disabled business owners and employees
- Structuring of the supply chain selection process to ensure fairness (e.g. anti-corruption) and encourages participation by a diverse range of businesses, including with regard to new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutual
- Understanding of local demographics, needs and opportunities for the co-design of the goods, services and works to be delivered under the contract
- 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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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.
- Understanding of opportunities for additional environmental benefits delivery in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
- Collaborative ways of working with the supply chain to deliver additional environmental benefits in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
- Delivery of additional environmental benefits through the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
- 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
- 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
- Understanding of employment and skills issues, and of the skills and employment shortages of high growth sectors relating to the contract
- Creation of employment opportunities particularly for those who face barriers to employment, such as prison leavers, care leavers and/or who are located in deprived areas, and for people in industries with known skills shortages or in high growth sectors
- Delivery of training schemes and programmes to address any identified skills gaps and under-representation in the workforce for the contract (e.g. prison leavers, care leavers, kinship carers, disabled people)
- Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
- Understanding of the issues affecting the representation of disabled people in the workforce in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
- Collection of the views and expertise of disabled people and their representative organisations on successfully supporting disabled employees or applicants
- Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, and retention-focused activities, including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition
- Introducing transparency to pay and reward processes
- Offering a range of quality opportunities with routes of progression if appropriate, e.g. T Level industry placements, students supported into higher level apprenticeships.
- Working conditions which promote an inclusive working environment and promote retention and progression
- Other measures to provide equality of opportunity for disabled people and those with health conditions into employment, including becoming a Disability Confident employer and inclusion of supported businesses in the contract supply chain
- 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
- Inclusive and accessible development practices, including guidance for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition
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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.
- Understanding of the issues affecting the development of new skills by target cohort
- Understanding of the underlying factors affecting improvements to reduce barriers to entry and training schemes for the target cohort(s) related to the contract workforce
- Other measures to offer development opportunities for the target cohort(s) in the contract workforce
- Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
- Understanding of issues relating to entering the contract workforce
- Creation of outreach activities to create a pipeline of employees for the future contract delivery
- Content of the outreach activity is designed to suit the target cohort
- Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
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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.
- Understanding of issues relating to health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health, in the contract workforce
- Understanding barriers to access to health and social care services or employment opportunities e.g. digital inclusion
- Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, development practices and retention policies that support-focused activities including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing which support people with a disability or health condition
- Actions to invest in the physical and mental health and wellbeing of the contract workforce
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