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Awards & Our Partnerships
Recognitions We have worked incredibly hard to build
our reputation as a responsible business.
• In 2015, we were awarded the ‘Closing the
We value our community partnerships and
Educational Gap Award’ at the Responsible
see them as powerful enablers to ensure we Corporate Social Responsibility
Business Awards in Scotland and CSR Firm
stay true to our values, introduce and share
of the Year at the Law Awards of Scotland
best practice and maintain our focus of being
• We were also recognised as a Finalist in a profitable and sustainable business.
Business in the Community’s national We will further demonstrate our credentials as
School’s Partnership Awards - we were a responsible business through our continued
successfully re-accredited in 2016 participation in independent benchmarking
to assess and evolve our performance
• In 2016, LV= awarded DWF The Community
in support of our diversity, community
Award which recognised the impact of
investment and environmental goals.
our community investment strategy, with
our 5 STAR Futures school engagement
DWF supports the principles of Human Rights
programme being described as ‘a superb
set out in the Universal Declaration of Human
and totally integrated programme’.
Rights, the International Labour Organisation
(ILO) core labour standards and is a signatory
5 STAR Futures of the United Nations Global Compact.
5 STAR Futures is our flagship national Our partnerships include:
education programme which aims to
• Business in the Community (BITC)
enable aspirational young people across
the UK to unlock their potential by helping • Stonewall Diversity Champion Status
them increase their confidence, develop
• We are a Disability Confident Employer and
their employability skills and become more
have maintained our ClearAssured status –
work ready.
establishing us as an inclusive recruiter of
disabled talent - we were the first UK law
We partner with ambitious and aspirational
firm to achieve this
schools in locations where we have an office
and provide their students with the challenge, • We have our own, highly commended LGBT
support and knowledge to enable their network group, OutFront
potential and help them build sustainable
• We are a Top 10 Top Employer for
careers, and contribute to developing
Working Families
sustainable and vibrant communities.
We also collaborate with trusted business • We participate in BITC’s Gender and Race
partners that share our values and support benchmarking and are currently Silver
our purpose, and actively engage our clients Standard on both
in this programme.
• Employers Network for Equality and
Inclusion (ENEI).
5 STAR is designed to help tackle the negative
impact of 3.6 million children living in poverty.
We focus our efforts on those schools with
an above average number of pupils eligible
for free school meals, that are located in the
20% most deprived areas in the country and
where students are not achieving the national
average A* - C GCSE results.