Social Partnership Council Forward Work Programme 2024 to 2025 (paper to note)

Meeting 1: 1 February 2024 

• The SPC Procedures 
• Overview of Public Bodies' Well-being Duties under the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 
• Proposed approach to the provision of information and advice by the SPC to the Welsh Ministers 
• Fair Work: policy and context, levers and constraints 
• The Socially Responsible Public Procurement provisions of the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act 23 
• Operationalising the Social Partnership Duty on Welsh Ministers 
• The Welsh Government’s 2024 to 2025 Draft Budget 
• Meeting with Mosque Leaders and Imams

Meeting 2: 4 June 2024

• Welsh Government Legislative Programme
• Consultation on Welsh Ministers legislative priorities
• Reviewing the Welsh Government well-being objectives

Papers to note:

• Update on socially responsible procurement
• Outline Forward Work Programme

Meeting 3: 10 July 2024

• Agree SPC Procedures 
• Issues faced by the disabled workforce in Wales
• The potential for the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act 
  2023 to support equality and diversity
• Use of Welsh Government financial support to ensure fair work
• Paper on the implications of AI for the workforce
• Agree Forward Work Programme 

Meeting 4: 6 November (TBC) Autumn 2024 

• Consultation on the priorities for Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025 to 2026 
• KAS Evaluation plan on implementation of the SPPP Act

Meeting 5: January/February 2025 

• Socially Responsible Procurement 
• AI and the workforce (potentially including an update from WPC)

Meeting 6: Late May/early June 2025 

• Consultation on Welsh Ministers’ legislative priorities 2025 to 2026 
• Consultation on the Annual Review of the Welsh Government’s Well-being Objectives

Meeting 7: Mid July 2025 

• Agreeing the Welsh Government’s Social Partnership Report

Meeting 8: Autumn 2025 

• Consultation on the priorities for Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026 to 2027 
• Review/Analysis of Public Bodies Social Partnership reports