Sample Social Clause: VicUrban community benefit requirement

1. Employment and Training

1.1 Describe the steps that will be taken to ensure that local apprentices, trainees, unemployed persons and residents of the City of Greater Dandenong will be engaged for the duration of each contract.
1.2 Describe how you will achieve compliance from sub-contractors necessary to meet the employment requirements.
1.3 Describe your policy with regard to training and new apprenticeships and identify and describe opportunities for increasing skills of employees.

2 Targeted Recruitment

2.1 Describe the steps that will be taken to ensure that all vacancies, including those with subcontractors, are notified to local agencies.
2.2 Describe the steps that will be taken to ensure that information on the numbers of vacancies filled by local people are recorded for monitoring and reporting purposes.
2.3 Describe the steps that will be taken to ensure that suitable apprentices / trainees are engaged.

3 Local Business

3.1 Describe activities that you will undertake to identify local SMEs and assess their capacity to deliver works, services or supplies that are required for the contract.
3.2 Describe any actions you will undertake to support or assist local SMEs to obtain contracts in relation to the Revitalising Central Dandenong initiative.

4 Social Enterprise

4.1 Describe any experience or evidence from other areas that has influenced your thinking on support for social enterprises.
4.2 Describe the support you will give to social enterprises, including development support, business support and funding.
4.3 Please complete the table below setting out the activities that could be made available to a social enterprise (eg. Mission Australia’s UREEP).

Contractors are also required to complete information about how the above will be recorded, monitored and reported, including sub-contractor requirements. In addition contractors are required to name who will be responsible for ensuring that the Community Benefit requirements are met.

Finally, potential suppliers are required to list the predicted outcomes for each community benefit requirement.