54.Section 18 amends the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014 in order to impose a duty on the Scottish Ministers to exercise their power under section 53 of that Act to issue guidance on ethical commissioning. Guidance under section 53 of the Joint Working Act is guidance to which local authorities, health boards, integration joint boards and integration joint monitoring committees must have regard to when carrying out their functions arising under or in relation to the Joint Working Act. What ethical commissioning entails is left to the guidance to set out, but the amendment made by section 18 does require that the guidance address the fair treatment of workers.
Overview of the Act Overview of Part 2 Ethical commissioning guidance