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title: People
date: 2022-09-20T16:01:00+01:00
author: Joanne Hennigan
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Sustainability

## People

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Sustainability Pillar 1

## Empowering People to Prosper

We believe the meaningful change we all seek begins from within. We encourage a collective energy built on individual actions to create an inclusive, safe and prosperous world for our people and the communities in which we operate.

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Our focus

## Nurturing brilliant minds

We’re attracting, educating and developing a smart, brave, agile workforce so that the brightest minds can create a better today, and an even brighter tomorrow.

Create a bespoke and supportive career development framework for employees to thrive

Develop and deliver an education programme to support skills migration to deliver the energy transition

Establish a clear competency framework to deliver rich career paths

[This is how we are nurturing brilliant minds](https://kentplc.com/sustainability/people/nurturing-brilliant-minds)

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Our focus

## Lifting communities

We’re lifting the communities where we operate by employing local people and local suppliers, educating the next generation of talent, and providing donations and community development.

Build a best practise ‘toolbox’ for local content

Create a system to track & collate community investment

Develop a local content strategy

Develop a standard around community investment

Develop standard metrics for what we can track on local content

Offer our teams sunshine days to support local causes

[Find out how we are lifting communities](https://kentplc.com/sustainability/people/lifting-communities)

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Our focus

## Empowering our people

We’re empowering our employees to prosper by providing them with the financial, physical, mental and emotional knowledge and support they need to thrive.

Develop, pilot and implement weekly mood 'pop' surveys

Increase the utilisation rate of our Employee Assistance Programme

Integrate wellbeing into the inclusion and belonging standards

[Discover how we are empowering our people](https://kentplc.com/sustainability/people/empowering-our-people)

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We’re proud of our strong record but we’ll never become complacent about

## Our foundations

- Health, safety and security
- Employee satisfaction
- Employee engagement
- Attraction and retention
- Employee rewards and benefits
- Competence