Fair Work Action Plan: impact report 2025

Asylum and Refugees: Support refugees to access Fair Work through the second New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy

Digital: Include Fair Work throughout all aspects of the next iteration of Connecting Scotland

Digital: Take forward the Scottish Tech Ecosystem Review

Early Learning and Childcare: Evaluate the impact of the Early Learning and Childcare expansion programme to 1,140 hours

Early Learning and Childcare: Publish a School Age Childcare Delivery Framework alongside a Strategic Childcare Plan

Early Learning and Childcare: Work with partners to develop a package of actions for Scotland’s childcare profession

Economic Development: Develop Community Wealth Building legislation

Economic Development: Enable all Local Authorities to develop a Community Wealth Building strategy and action plan

Economic Development: Engage with anchor organisations across sectors to integrate Community Wealth Building into wider strategies

Economic Development: Publish the Women in Entrepreneurship report

Education: Support and implement the recommendations of the Gender Equality Taskforce in Education and Learning

Education: Support Unions into Schools and Developing the Young Workforce programmes

Education: Introduce Scotland’s first National Transitions to Adulthood Strategy

Employability: Provide funding to support the role of a Fair Work Apprenticeship Co-ordinator for the Construction Sector

Note: Funding was discontinued in March 2025 following five years of support

Employability: Support people to progress towards, enter and sustain Fair Work

Note: Action incorporated into reporting on Action 4.3 and continued

Employability: Create a more responsive, agile and joined up employability system

Note: Action incorporated into reporting on Action 4.3 and continued

Employability: Improve outcomes and impacts for the six priority family groups through No One Left Behind

Employability: Deliver more effective outcomes for employability service users

Note: Action incorporated into reporting on Action 4.3 and continued

Environment and Forestry: Ensure the principles of Fair Work inform the Environment Strategy for Scotland

Events: Work with the Event Industry Advisory Group to ensure that Fair Work considerations are included in the National Events Strategy

Health: Deliver the Women’s Health Plan to develop a menopause and menstrual health workplace policy

Health: Take forward recommendations from the 2019 Review of the Health and Work Strategy

Note: Action incorporated into reporting on Action 4.6 and continued

Health: Drive a supportive and enabling culture for people working in health, social care and social work

Health: Work with employer groups and trade unions to promote mentally healthy workplaces

Health: Build mental health support into our employability initiatives

Health: Drive cultural changes within NHS Scotland to nourish a diverse and inclusive workforce

Marine: Publish a Seafood Trade Strategy including Fair Work recommendations

Procurement: Review and refresh Fair Work and Procurement non-statutory guidance

Skills: Develop a lifetime skills offer

Note: Superseded by reform work on the post-school education and skills system

Skills: Work with the Scottish Apprenticeship Advisory Board to realise the outcomes of the Gender Commission report

Skills: Ensure gender and wider equalities are key considerations in the Skilled Workforce Programme of NSET

Note: Superseded by reform work on the post-school education and skills system

Social Security: Undertake a review of the Social Security Charter in line with the principles of equality and non-discrimination set out in the Social Security (Scotland) Act

Social Security: Target benefit take-up and maximisation of income

Tackling violence against women and girls: Refresh Equally Safe, strengthening links with Fair Work

Transport: Develop the Accessible Travel Framework to ensure disabled people and other groups can travel safely

Transport: Provide further advice on how transport policy impacts on the gender pay gap when updating the Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance

Transport: Undertake and act on research on women’s and girls’ safety on public transport and the implications for them accessing work

Trauma-Informed Workplaces: Raise awareness of the benefits of adopting trauma-informed and responsive approaches in the workplace