Having become a corporate member of BITC in July 2007, the Group has worked closely with the organisation to participate in the BITC Corporate Responsibility Index. Working with the BITC secretariat, we have completed a trial index assessment to identify the Group's current reporting capabilities which has addressed our strengths and weaknesses in the process. Kier Group has now completed the Business in the Community Corporate Responsibility Index 2008 and 2009.
The Kier Group CR programme for 2009/10 was based upon the feedback report on our 2008/9 BITC CR Index submission. In the 2008/9 BITC CR Index Kier achieved a creditable 58.5% and we set a target in our CR programme to achieve 70% (the Bronze performance band) in the next three years. Such has been the success in implementing this programme in the last 12 months that Kier Group achieved 78.2% in the 2009/10 BITC CR Index, not only representing one of the greatest improvements of all Index participants but also being just short of the Silver performance band (79.76%). This achievement was reported in the Financial Times Responsible Business supplement on 7 June. Our 2010/11 CR programme will be based on the latest CR Index feedback report.
The BITC CR Index assesses corporate strategy, including corporate values, advocacy, risk management and business conduct, and management systems for community, environment, marketplace and workplace. It assesses our approach to climate change, waste and resource management and biodiversity. It also reviews health, safety and wellbeing, employee development, employing migrant workers, and community investment. The completion of this comprehensive survey will become the basis for our future CR reporting criteria.
In the meantime, BITC has continued to work closely with several of the Group operating companies. Kier Moss, which piloted membership of the scheme in 2006/7, continued to work with BITC locally to further develop its own Corporate Responsibility Policy and this year evolved a formal policy under the banner of ‘Connecting – people, environment, communities’. This has now become a model framework which is intended to be launched across all Regional companies in 2009/10. Kier Moss also works on several projects locally with BITC to engage with communities wherever their work takes them.
Kier Sheffield LLP was awarded a Big Tick Award for employability by BITC Yorkshire & Humberside for the second successive year in 2008 and once again participated in the BITC Yorkshire & Humberside Environmental Index, improving their score for the fourth consecutive year and maintaining their position in the silver sector of the index league table, which is an excellent achievement. Kier Building Services Engineers also worked with BITC and the children’s charity Kids Club in the London Borough of Hackney, while Kier Build is involved in the Business Action Group coordinated by BITC in the delivery of the vast 67-acre brownfield site being developed by Argent at London’s King’s Cross.
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