NCC Group plc Annual Report 2021

Sustainability continued

Our key sustainability focus areas and objectives

Efficiency

Community engagement

Wellbeing

Climate change

Focus areas and objectives

Inclusion, diversity, skills and development

Respect our environment

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Good governance enabling investment, innovation and sustainable growth

Quality services and satisfied customers

Responsible supply chain

Environment

Social

Governance

• We continue to foster partnerships that support development of future diverse cyber talent • Building on the development of our pilot programme in the UK (in preparation for lockdown restrictions easing) we will develop a global giving back programme, which will enable colleagues to take part in local community programmes • We will continue to invest in developing our mental health first aid network and resources and look to implement our broader wellbeing strategy, partnering again with This Can Happen • Through NCC Conversations we will continue to encourage engagement from colleagues and our external stakeholders around our four focus areas of gender, LGBTQIA+, race and ethnicity and neurodiversity. Our signing of the UN Global Compact will reinforce our commitment to our responsible business operations • The conversations alongside our performance management programme and career framework development will help drive our performance culture, creating an environment where everyone is welcome and can be successful

• This is a priority area for us to focus on in this new financial year

• We continue to be committed to building long-term sustainable relationships, earning trust through understanding the challenges our customers have and delivering high quality solutions to take their pain away • We will win business fairly and use our internal processes to assess and consciously accept working with customers who align with our own values and Code of Ethics • We will strengthen our Supplier Code of Conduct to ensure we protect the integrity of our ethics across the supply chain, entering any supplier or partner relationships with a mutual understanding of each other’s code of ethics and general business policies • We will provide accurate and timely information to shareholders and always observe the relevant regulations and corporate governance principles to protect the integrity of our business operations • We will consider the interests of all our stakeholders when we make decisions on the Group’s future strategy and priorities

• Building on the new and successful ways of working created by the pandemic we will engage in conversation with our customers to explore how we can work together to reduce the impact on the environment through reducing non-essential travel • As our office environments come back to life, we are investing in education programmes to reduce our physical impact – from flexible working and minimising printing, to increasing recycling. And we will continue to review our physical office requirements to ensure we only use what we need • We’ll design solutions for the future, driving efficiency into our design and delivery • We have partnered with Willis Towers Watson to develop our approach to identifying and assessing climate change risk, which will support the development of a robust strategy and enable reporting against the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) in 2022

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NCC Group plc — Annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 May 2021

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