Corporate Responsibility in social care centers and services
Promotion of corporate responsibility in social care centers and services.
The General Directorate of Evaluation, Quality and Innovation, of the Ministry of Family, Youth and Social Affairs, is competent to promote measures to promote corporate responsibility in healthcare centers, without prejudice to the powers that correspond to other bodies due to the matter.
In the exercise of said competence, it carries out different actions, the main ones of which are collected on this page.
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Corporate responsability
Corporate Responsibility (CR), also known as Social Responsibility, Corporate Social Responsibility, or Corporate Social Responsibility, is a way of running companies based on managing the impacts that their activity generates on their customers, employees, shareholders, local communities, the environment and society in general.
The European Commission defined, at the time, the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility as "the voluntary integration, by companies, of social and environmental concerns in their commercial operations and their relations with their interlocutors" (Green paper 'Promoting a European framework for corporate social responsibility' COM(2001) 366).
CR refers, therefore, to the actions of companies that are directed -beyond the fulfillment of their legal obligations- to society and the environment.
For the competitiveness of companies, a strategic approach to CR is increasingly important, which can bring benefits in terms of risk management, cost savings, access to capital, customer relations, human resource management and capacity for innovation. .
Because CR requires engagement with internal and external stakeholders, it enables companies to better anticipate and take advantage of rapidly changing societal expectations and operating conditions. Therefore, it can promote the development of new markets and generate growth opportunities.
It is, therefore, a management model that provides intangible values to companies and organizations, but also has a very positive impact when it comes to accessing new markets and customers, obtaining financing and improving labor productivity and, therefore, , the competitiveness of companies.
More information on this can be found at The Social Responsibility Portal, of the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy.
Models and Standards
Models and standards are references that organizations use to improve their management. Models, unlike standards, do not contain requirements that management systems must meet, but rather guidelines or recommendations.
Rules related to social responsibility
Among others, we can find the SGE 21 standards or the UNE-EN ISO 26000:2021.
La SSG 21, property of Poretic, is the first European standard that allows the implementation, auditing and certification of an ethical and socially responsible management system. It constitutes a key tool for the integration of environmental, social and good governance aspects in the management of companies and organizations of all kinds.
On the other hand, the standard UNE-EN ISO 26000: 2021 aims to help organizations contribute to sustainable development. Its purpose is to encourage organizations to go beyond legal compliance, recognizing that this is a fundamental obligation for any organization and an essential part of its social responsibility. This standard is not certifiable.
Regulations related to environmental management
The UNE-EN ISO 14001: 2015 specifies the requirements for an environmental management system that an organization can use to improve its environmental performance. It is applicable to any organization, regardless of its size, type and nature, and applies to those environmental aspects of its activities, products and services that the organization determines that it can control or influence, considering a life cycle perspective. .
Links of interest
- Madrid's community. Corporate Social Responsibility. The General Directorate for the Self-Employed and Entrepreneurship, of the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Employment, coordinates and promotes the Community Government's policies in this area.
- phoretica, a leading organization in sustainability and corporate social responsibility in Spain. Its mission is to integrate social, environmental and good governance aspects into the strategy and management of companies and organizations. It is currently made up of more than 200 members.. Forética is the representative of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in Spain and leads the Spanish Business Council for Sustainable Development, made up of the Presidents and CEOs of large Spanish companies, which have recently launched the 'Vision 2050. The moment of transformation' in Spain. In addition, in Europe, Forética is a national partner of CSR Europe, and is part of the CSR State Council in Spain.
- Global Pact, a UN initiative that leads corporate sustainability in the world. The initiative has more than 20 years of experience and more than 70 local networks in the world, among which is the Spanish one, which has been, since its creation, one of the first national platforms of the Global Compact and the local network with the largest number of affiliated entities.
- Spanish Network for Sustainable Development, Spanish branch of the Network of Solutions for Sustainable Development, which aims to contribute to the creation and implementation of transformative solutions for sustainable development. It is an interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaboration network created to think about the future, to mobilize resources and to formulate solutions.
