Resources
Supply Chain Sustainability School
Since 2016, United Utilities has been a partner to the Supply Chain Sustainability School. The school is completely free for suppliers to join and allows access to numerous training options and resources that will help to embed our Responsible Sourcing Principles throughout our supply chains.
We would encourage our suppliers to join up to the school, as this will help us to work together and improve our capabilities. You can find out more about the school and what they can offer you here.
We have selected a number of learning resources that we would encourage our supply chain to access and make use of, you can find them on our partner page here. To view these resources you will need to sign up or log in to your account.
Procurement Skills Accord
We’ve partnered up with The Procurement Skills Accord to support us in developing a sustainable skilled workforce. The Procurement Skills Accord is an initiative to promote investment in training and skills development through procurement practices.
Developed and led by the Energy & Utilities Skills Partnership, the aim of the Accord is to create a sustainably skilled sector workforce, by recognising those who invest in skills through procurement processes and rewarding suppliers in doing so. A skilled and sustainable workforce is vital to address industry risks, such as an ageing workforce and adjacent sector attraction, whilst our infrastructure projects are reliant on having the right technical skills at the right time.
The Accord can help address these needs:
- Provides key metrics on skills development to enable supply chain collaboration
- Drives investment in skills development through procurement
- Raises the standard of technical capability and capacity development to build sustainability
You can find out more on this here - https://www.euskills.co.uk/about/energy-utilities-skills-partnership/skills-accord/