The Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act 2023
The Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act 2023 (SPPP Act) which came into force on 01 April 2024, requires the Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Authority (MAWWFRA), as a public body, to produce an annual report to evidence how they have complied with the Social Partnership Duty.
The annual report summarises how the Authority has complied with the duty which must be submitted to the Social Partnership Council (“SPC”) for scrutiny. Section 18 of the SPPP Act states:
Social Partnership reports:
(1) A public body must prepare, in respect of each financial year, a report of what it has done to comply with the duty.
(2) The report must be agreed with the public body’s recognised trade unions or (where there is no recognised trade union) other representatives of its staff or contain a statement explaining why it was not agreed.
(3) The public body must publish the report, and submit it to the SPC, as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of the financial year.
The annual Social Partnership Duty report summarises the actions taken with the Authority’s recognised trade unions to implement the Duty.
