Social Value Workshops

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• Social Value Workshops

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Social Value

• The additional benefit to the community from a
  commissioning/procurement process over and above
  the direct purchasing of goods, services and
  supplies. It is not dependent on the provision of
  tools and techniques (though these are helpful).
  Its about changing or adapting behaviour to make
  the delivery of social value a conscious act.
  (CPC Ltd)

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Includes benefits that are

• Social
• Economic
• Environmental

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The Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012

• An Act to require public authorities to have
  regard to economic, social and environmental
  well-being in connection with public services
  contracts and for connected purposes.
• Received Royal Assent - 8 March 2012
• Comes into force provisionally December 2012

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Why is this significant?

• First time that public bodies have been required
  by law to explicitly consider how what is
  proposed to be procured might improve the
  economic, social and environmental well-being of
  the area.

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• Requires public bodies, before they start a
  procurement, to consider
• 1. How the services they propose to procure might
  improve the economic, social and environmental
  well-being of the area and
• How, in conducting the procurement process, it
  might secure that improvement
• i.e. where relevant, to write the social value
  objective into the procurement process
• 2. Only matters that are relevant to the
  procurement and
• the extent to which it is proportionate to take
  those matters into account
• 3. Whether to carry out any consultation about
  matters in point 1

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Application of the Act

• English (and Welsh) bodies that are contracting
  authorities under EU procurement legislation
• Applies to contracts for public services
• and
• Public services contracts with an element of
  goods or works
• Does not apply to contracts for works or supplies
• Grants?

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What does it mean in practice?

• All contracting authorities will have to consider
  the relevance of social, economic and
  environmental requirements when any contract for
  services is commissioned
• Should lead to a policy that addresses
  sustainable procurement
• Should bring social value into commissioning of
  services

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The PS Act and procurement law

• Sits alongside procurement law
• Social requirements can be fully included in
  procurement.
• Criteria
• Reflect the public bodys policy, i.e. relevant
  to the subject matter of the contract
• Capable of performance being measured
• Requirements drafted in spec become part of
  contract
• Defined in ways that do not discriminate against
  bidders in EU

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Potential Benefits

• Greater value for money
• Supports efficiencies agenda
• Supports partnership approaches
• Joining up of strategic aims
• Improved outcomes for service users and
  communities
• Can encompass assets approach
• Gives TSOs opportunity to prove their value
• Frees up providers to innovate
• Can engage communities in defining priorities

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Pan-regional social value commissioning project

• Project for 10 SHAs, sponsored by NHS North West
• Supported by CPC Ltd
• Aim support change in attitude and behaviour in
  NHS partners and hence support the development
  of a culture in which cp processes reflect wider
  social, economic and environmental policy aims
• Emphasis - Demonstrate the added value that the
  presence of the NHS can deliver.
• Developed toolkit for commissioning
• 8 local pilot projects

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Lessons

• What became immediately apparent during the life
  of the project was that social value is
  already being created as part of the current
  commissioning and procurement processes.
• (page 5 Final report, 2010)

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The key to success

• Any system for measuring social, environmental
  and economic value will need to be based on
  recognition that the results are relative, occur
  over the medium to long term and arise from
  negotiation between different stakeholders. This
  means that the key to success is to have a
  process that is shared by users (in this case,
  providers), it is highly unlikely that a single
  off the shelf method of capturing, assessing
  and quantifying the benefits can be created.

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East Sussex social value in practice

• ESCC and NHS grants process to commission health,
  social care wellbeing outcomes (6 groups)
• 2009 report recognised contribution that VCS
  makes through creating social capital
• Decision to invest 9 million over 3 years
• Grants prospectus approach
• Outcomes approach

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Lessons Multiple Outcomes
Older people Carers Disabled people
Support to lead healthier lifestyles People with learning disabilities People with mental health support needs
Building social capital
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Objectives

• Twenty commissioning objectives
• Three common objectives
• quality
• social capital
• value for money

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Lessons learned

• Senior leadership important
• Engage in discussion with stakeholders to develop
  the concept of social value and understand how it
  is created
• Initial scepticism on part of VCOs
• Support for TSOs understand meaning of social
  capital, what was being asked, how they could
  respond
• Extra layer of work
• Agree what is valued what do you wish to
  create, nurture, develop or protect?

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Next steps

• Link to Future Cornwall, Joint Framework for
  Action and the Corporate Performance measures
  basket
• Linking to Business Cases and Project plans
• Training via the Cornwall Leadership Academy

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A Set of Potential Measures for Social Value?

• The set of measures suggested here are taken from
  
• Future Cornwall 2010-2030, A Joint Strategy for
  Vision and Objectives, and are mapped against
• A Joint Framework for Action from the Public
  Sector in Cornwall (JFA) and the Councils
  potential corporate basket of performance
  measures.
• The Future Cornwall strategy has evolved from
  the Cornwall Sustainable Community Strategy and
  has wide buy in by public sector group membership
  agencies and other partners.
• It was influenced by the Place Survey, and many
  other surveys and pieces of intelligence. It
  therefore seems a good policy to start from in
  implementing the Public Services (Social Value)
  Act 2012.
• NB All outcomes are from Future Cornwall and
  those marked are also referenced in the JFA

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Achieve a leading position in sustainable Living-
Environmental outcomes

• Increased resilience to rising costs of energy
• Low carbon and energy efficient homes and
  buildings
• Reduced need to travel
• Local generation of renewable energy
• Careful use of resources, minimising waste and
  re-using waste products
• Consumption of locally produced food
• Investment in and promotion of sustainable use of
  natural resources

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Bring Cornwall out of recession focussing on the
low carbon economy Economic outcomes

• Build and enhance a robust network of small and
  medium businesses to secure Cornwalls economic
  stability
• Promote smaller settlements to be centres of
  employment
• Connect people, communities, businesses and
  services in a way that is reliable, efficient,
  safe, inclusive and less reliant on fossil fuels
• Creating economic conditions to maximise existing
  skills and stimulate news skills that support new
  ways of working

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Improve resilience and self-sufficiency of
communities Social outcomes

• Promote equality of opportunity and wellbeing
• Improve access to quality services
• Make it easier for people to lead healthy, active
  lifestyles
• Increase participation in influencing local
  decision making
• Encouraging individuals to engage in designing
  and shaping services in their communities
• Local citizens and neighbourhood groups leading
  projects and participating in the governance and
  delivery of services in their communities