Local Authority Services and Biodiversity-Your statutory obligations.
This leaflet should act as a source of inspiration for how you can have clear regard for biodiversity in your work. The centrefold illustration provides a 'bird's eye view' of where biodiversity conservation is relevant across a wide range of local authority services and functions. [Open]
Local Government Sustainable Procurement
Incorporating the Local Government Response to the Report of the Sustainable Procurement Task Force and to the UK Government Sustainable Procurement Action Plan
Councils in England spend over £40 billion each year undertaking capital projects and buying in goods and services. Across the public sector as a whole the figure is closer to £150 billion. There is a compelling business case for making this procurement spend more “sustainable”.
This local government strategy has been drawn up in response to the recommendations of the Sustainable Procurement Taskforce delivered in June 2006 and in the light of the Government response and national action plan published in March 2007. It sets out local government’s strategic intent.
Following further consultation with local government and its partners, the strategy will be complemented by an implementation route map developed in conjunction with the Local Government Association which will describe the actions which need to be taken to realise the intent set out here.
The national goal is for the UK to become a leader in the EU on sustainable procurement by 2009. On the journey from shared ambition to achievement on the ground local government’s strategic intent is as follows. [Open]
