Social Sustainability from Veriforce CHAS is an independently verified maturity assessment that benchmarks an organisation’s progress against a broad range of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) topics.
Clients: see where your entire supply chain is now – and how to drive improvements in the future.
Contractors: get an independently verified report you can use in bids and tender responses to address ESG requests.
How It Works:
The Social Sustainability verification covers 15 different areas of ESG focusing primarily on social and key environmental topics.
Organisations are assessed following a maturity model that scores each area on a scale from zero to five.
0 = Not Started
1 = Getting Started
2 = Pockets of Good Practice
3 = Strategic
4 = Embedded
5 = Influencer
The Assessment
The information and data provided by firms is independently assessed by teams of Environmental and Social Auditors who each have considerable and relevant industry experience.
Assessors are reviewing the quality of the work and the evidence provided against each principle for every question set.
Interviews assess the employee and leadership’s understanding of each category and individuals’ experiences of governance practices.
Why Clients Need it
We find clients or buying organisations need CHAS Social Sustainability because:
- They lack consistent ESG data collection and assessment across their supply chain – they either have no data or can’t compare between suppliers, which:
- stops them from driving improvement across their suppliers
- represents a significant reputational risk for the client – if e.g. modern slavery, poor pay, environmental damage is found in one supplier, that impacts client’s brand reputation or even financial / business risk (fines, legal action, cancellation of contracts, …)
- means any annual ESG reporting has little or no supply chain metrics
- They want to comply with developing International ESG legislation
- They find responding to ESG questions on tenders and performance management practices for ESG are highly time consuming and disruptive, without reliable and consistent data
Social Sustainability for Clients
All supply chains contribute to an organisation’s impact on society. To positively manage that impact you need to understand and trust the practices your supply chain has in place to operate in a more sustainable fashion.
CHAS Social Sustainability enables clients to benchmark their supply chain and sets out the course for their development. The ongoing recording and measuring of the supply chain’s capabilities enables clients to factor sustainability practices into procurement.
This suite of product and services from CHAS enables clients to measure and demonstrate how they are driving sustainability beyond their direct operation to positively impact the communities around them”.
The CHAS Social Sustainability suite offers clients a foundation layer of governance to serve any sustainable procurement strategy.
Benefits for Clients
Consistent and Specialist ESG data collection and assessment for your supply chain
Gain visibility of your supply chain’s ESG capabilities so you can drive improvement
Demonstrate advanced ESG governance through your organisation into the supply chain
Boost annual ESG reporting with supply chain metrics
Comply with developing International ESG legislation
Simplify and save time on your tender and performance management practices for ESG
Attract and retain talent and shareholders with ESG credentials
Access to a suite of ESG support materials and services
Social Sustainability for Contractors
The CHAS Social Sustainability maturity assessments are a company’s satellite navigation system for developing governance to become a more sustainable business. This ESG (environment, social and governance) solution tells you where you are with your current practices, and where you need to do to improve. It also gives you guidance throughout the journey.
By consistently recording and measuring the journey, contractors can evidence their ongoing commitment to contributing to a more sustainable future.
Benefits for Contractors
