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An international CSR advisory group is to be established as part of efforts by the UK government to promote responsible business practice around the world.
The government will make the move in connection with its finalized international framework on corporate social responsibility, which it has been working on for the past year.
The framework, published last month, outlines the government’s priorities on CSR, and firmly states that ministers want to play an enabling role rather than one based on enforcement through regulation.
Helen Griffiths, CSR policy adviser at the Department of Trade and Industry, told EP the advisory group will ‘support the implementation of the UK strategic framework’ and that one of its main tasks will be to develop a way of assessing the effectiveness of government initiatives.
It will also consider how best to measure ‘all of the impacts, positive and negative, economic and social as well as environmental, of the operations of UK businesses across the world.’
To do this, the government says it will have to work more closely with research bodies, consumer groups and ‘environmental organizations’ to expand existing research.
‘The group will comprise representatives from business, academia and non-governmental organizations, and will be supported by government, with the DTI taking the lead,’ said Griffiths. ‘We are in the process of putting together the composition of the group, which will be set up as soon as possible’.
The government is to create a secretariat for the ‘time-limited’ group.
The government will make the move in connection with its finalized international framework on corporate social responsibility, which it has been working on for the past year.
The framework, published last month, outlines the government’s priorities on CSR, and firmly states that ministers want to play an enabling role rather than one based on enforcement through regulation.
Helen Griffiths, CSR policy adviser at the Department of Trade and Industry, told EP the advisory group will ‘support the implementation of the UK strategic framework’ and that one of its main tasks will be to develop a way of assessing the effectiveness of government initiatives.
It will also consider how best to measure ‘all of the impacts, positive and negative, economic and social as well as environmental, of the operations of UK businesses across the world.’
To do this, the government says it will have to work more closely with research bodies, consumer groups and ‘environmental organizations’ to expand existing research.
‘The group will comprise representatives from business, academia and non-governmental organizations, and will be supported by government, with the DTI taking the lead,’ said Griffiths. ‘We are in the process of putting together the composition of the group, which will be set up as soon as possible’.
The government is to create a secretariat for the ‘time-limited’ group.
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