Simple Changes

Goals

Themes

As a public body, you should…

Use plain English and Welsh as standard in any documents intended for the public

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Promote job-sharing opportunities for elected representatives e.g. councillors

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Have initiatives to recruit people from groups that are under-represented in your workforce

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Consider opportunities to second staff within and between organisations, to share knowledge and develop transferable skills

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Review your procurement policy and ensure that it includes fair and ethical practices (to include fair trade, marine stewardship council and forestry stewardship council

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Provide ‘walk throughs’ of your services for your staff (particularly those in decision making roles) and governance leads

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Consider how you can ensure children have access to daily outdoor play

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Give free access to Park Run on any publicly-owned land

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Make public information accessible through a variety of formats

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Review your approach to refugees and asylum seekers and play your part in Wales becoming a Nation of Sanctuary

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Ensure that new developments and retrofitting of existing facilities must consider renewable energy sources and recycled materials

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Adopt a single-use plastic policy, to remove single-use plastics from your estate

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Publish and analyse data about how you procure goods and services.

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Involve people at the earliest possible opportunity

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Use the Cymraeg comma on lanyards and email signatures of all staff who are Welsh speakers

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Provide ‘biodiversity / green infrastructure’ learning for staff across ALL Departments

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A Healthier Wales

Build up a picture of how easy your workplace makes it for those that want to walk, cycle or use public transport, and identify areas for improvement

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Encourage community transport opportunities

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Provide spaces for wildlife such as bird boxes, insect home ponds and bat boxes – especially in new developments

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Explore offering hot-desking or video conferencing facilities to other public bodies.

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Facilitate opportunities for volunteering with environmental organisations during or outside of work

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A Prosperous Wales

Become a Living Wage employer

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Map out the community anchor organisations you are working with and explore further opportunities

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Ensure that arts venues you work with are signed up to the National Access Scheme (Hynt)

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Explore the potential of time credits within your organisation

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Provide mental health and suicide awareness training for all staff

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Engage on a theme rather than a specific policy

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Procure and plant native trees and shrubs as a first choice

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Use only Recycled Paper, and set a date to be paper free, and when printing move towards using only soy-based inks

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A More Equal Wales

Encourage your staff to visit local projects and meet key local people driving change

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Review your policies to ensure you’re optimising opportunities to improve your employees’ health and wellbeing

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Encourage staff to hold meetings in local and independent coffee shops and cafes.

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Support your staff and visitors to understand their personal carbon footprints

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Ensure that your staff undertake training about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

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Encourage your employees to take breaks and eat away from their desk

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Support and promote the Night Out Scheme

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Set targets for the retention of women returning from maternity leave.

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Consider the opportunities to support and develop local clubs involved in sport

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Reduce the use of pesticides and fertilisers on road verges and in urban green spaces

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Have a flexible working policy

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Ensure that all of your access points have bilingual greetings.

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Calculate and understand your organisation’s carbon footprint.

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Ensure you are having ‘what matters’ conversations

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Take one action for global learning such as getting involved in Fairtrade Fortnight, Go Green Day or Earth Hour.

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Support SMEs, social businesses and co-operatives to work together to jointly bid for contracts.

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Play your part in enabling local people to come together in communities to meet and build social networks

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Check whether your contracts meet the needs of the Modern Slavery Act

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Ensure continued free access to museums, libraries and green spaces

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Map public land to identify and publicise land that is accessible for use by community groups, with the aim of connecting wildlife habitats

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Exploring funding options, or supporting community groups, to develop renewable energy projects on public land

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Share public engagement opportunities and data with other organisations

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Ensure employees receive refugee and asylum seeker awareness training

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Carry out a ‘you said, we did’ exercise

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Train relevant staff in principles and practices of public involvement

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Use a variety of accessible, inclusive engagement methods and formats

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Encourage walking and standing meetings, where appropriate

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Encourage your staff to sign up for and use their free library card, providing accessible information on what the library offer

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Promote opportunities for older people to engage in culture, through the Gwanwyn Festival.

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Manage road verges and connected green spaces (such as spaces around buildings) for wildflowers and pollination

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Review your energy contracts, pension providers and investment portfolios and reduce your burden on the planet and its people

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Engage in National Play Day

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Take stock of mental health in your workplace

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Explore whether you could use participatory budgeting approaches to enable people to make decisions about how some funds are allocated

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Take involvement opportunities to people, rather than expecting them to come to you.

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Involvement

Include public involvement in planning, monitoring, reporting and staff appraisal

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A Wales Of Cohesive Communities

Enable local people to improve unloved space

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Help staff and residents to save and borrow with local credit unions

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Explore opportunities for intergenerational activities

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Play your part in enabling local partnerships for all aspects of the natural environment

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Consider supporting your communities to redesign their streets to improve their health and wellbeing

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Ensure your organisation takes part in Fair Trade Fortnight

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Maximise the potential for apprenticeships in your organisation

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A Resilient Wales

Use peat-free compost in planting schemes across cities, towns and villages

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Appoint social value champions.

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Provide lockers for your employees

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Publicise opportunities to volunteer locally

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Offer deaf awareness training and British Sign Language (BSL) training for your staff, particularly for those on the front line

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Promote leadership opportunities to your staff to understand global contexts

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Pay your suppliers promptly

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Consider supporting communities and/or your organisation to become dementia-friendly

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Hold regular surgeries for suppliers

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Publishing data on protected characteristics and pay grades within the workforce. This includes the gender pay-gap

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