1. Social Value – linking policies and outcomes
Emmeline Watkins
Acting Director, Epidemiology and Evidence, Cambridgeshire Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner
Health and Wellbeing Team, Public Health England East of England

2. Overview
What is social value and the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012?
What approaches can be taken to social value?
What is has happened in CCGs and LAs?
Nationally
Locally
What is happening locally?
Informal Social Value Network
Proposals and approaches
How does this link with sustainability?

3. Social Value must be considered and provides value for money
Social Value is “the additional benefit to the community...over and above the direct purchasing of goods, services and outcomes”
The public sector has a statutory duty to consider wider social, economic and environmental wellbeing of their area or stakeholders when negotiating public service contracts (Social Value Act 2012)
Mandated above OJEU threshold, but commissioners already permitted to consider social value as widely as they wish
Also encouraged in infrastructure
Very few organisations have embedded this with into policies and procurement practice across the system

4. Social value can be very wide
Sustainable sourcing and production
Greater diversity of suppliers and use of SME
Apprenticeships and upskilling
Design of service to improve sustainability
Commitment to target employment opportunities at long-term unemployed

5. Social value is wider than procurement and can be clearly linked to political vision and outcomes

6. Approach and ambition for social value
Large
Infrastructure and construction
Medium
(Public Service contracts
over OJEU threshold)
Statutory duty
Encouraged
Small
under OJEU threshold)
Single Organisation Approach
Place-based Approach

7. Approaches to social value vary
Single organisation
A individual organisation generates a social value policy, process and framework
Pros – quicker to implement, will reflect organisational values, easier for regional and national organisations
Cons – lack of consistency and coordination between organisations in the same place as to what is of social value
Place-based approach
A coordinated approach is taken by the public sector and/or private sector in a particular location.
Pros – clear links to place-based ambitions and outcomes, clear message is given to providers, delivery of system outcomes - it can be easier to deliver on partner outcomes than your own
Cons – requires coordination across very different sectors e.g. LA, NHS, policing, private sector.

8. Infrastructure
Beginning to be used more widely within construction and infrastructure
Crown Commercial Services has social value framework within steel procurement e.g. sustainable sourcing and production, supply chain management and greater diversity of supplier base, skills and training, targeting new employment opportunities at the long-term unemployed, health and safety and other benefits to the local community
Commercial businesses – Mace, Scape, Amey creating frameworks that consider social value finding that it has become a differentiating factor
Taken from Mace6

9. Examples Single Organisation Approach
Encouraged and supported local SMEs to tender.
Serve 40,000 meals a week to staff and patients.
They ensure that they reduce waste and energy consumption while making sure that 35% of the food is produced within the region. The team have been awarded the Soil Association Food for Life Silver Award and Green Kitchen Standard.
Single Organisation Approach
Using local and sustainable produce
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust catering team
Aim 10% better in Salford
Salford Social Value Alliance is a partnership between the public sector, the private sector and the voluntary community and social enterprise sectors, aimed at producing more Social Value in Salford
Toolkits and resources
Pledge process.
Place-based approach
Social Value in Salford

10. Engagement with social value varies
Healthy Commissioning report by SEUK and National Voices (2017)
Summarises use of Social Value Act by CCGs and STPs
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11. No local mention of social value in EoE STPs

12. LAs have similarly mixed engagement
Similarly only 14% of English Councils were deemed to be “Embracers” of the Social Value Act Procuring for Good
Social Enterprise UK, Procuring for Good 2016

13. Informal Social Value Network shares practice
Meets every 2 months based on interested parties. Has grown over the last year
NHS England, SDU, OPCC, Cambridgeshire County Council, LGSS, Huntingdonshire District Council, 7 forces policing procurement representative, Social Value Portal
Shares approaches, good practice and bad
Being used as a good practice example to National Social Value Steering Group

14. How is this working locally?

15. How to link with other strategies?
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Ambition
The leading place in the world to learn, live and work
Why?
Key Outcomes
What? Who?
When? Where?
How?
Direct funding for outcome (£)
Examples
Health and Social Care pilot
University of Peterborough
Indirect funding for outcome (££££)
CA agreed to look at a wide approach
CCC/LGSS looking at social value policies
HDC applying it!
Lead by example
Open recruitment policies – such as DWP see potential.
PHE/CCC and other apply ban the box approach
How to link with other strategies?
Approach to social value
Long-term coordination, short-term encouraging action

16. Next steps Determining ambition and links to other work
Combined Authority
Leaders
Ongoing work by partners
Links to PSR, strategies
Development of social value policies and processes
CA outcomes framework
Local SV work
National and regional examples
Implementation and monitoring
Engagement and implementation
Monitoring of impact on outcomes

17. Examples

18. Process
Oldham Social Value Policy: _N1H0UQ

19. Frameworks
Social Value Portal:

20. Benefits
West Midlands CA Social Value Policy: