Fair Work First: grants awarded

Introduction

What Fair Work First is

Fair Work First requires employers receiving public sector grants to adopt fair work practices. This includes paying workers at least the real Living Wage. Funders can approve limited exceptions to this requirement in specific circumstances. 

How we collect the data

We contact public bodies across Scotland to request data on grants awarded. This includes:

• individual Scottish Government directorates
• all 32 local councils
• 132 other public bodies

The data excludes non-discretionary funding (such as grant-in-aid funding to public bodies, local government general revenue funding, and statutory payments and automatic entitlements where funders have no discretion over award criteria) as Fair Work First conditionality does not apply to these funding streams.

Data limitations

Please note these limitations when interpreting the findings: 

• this analysis covers survey respondents only and does not capture all public sector grants across Scotland
• some double counting may occur where grants are passed between public bodies before reaching final recipients 
• an organisation may receive more than one exception, therefore the numbers in tables 2 and 3 do not represent the number of individual organisations with an approved exception