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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 https://www.salfordsocialvalue.org.uk/

Engagement with social value varies Healthy Commissioning report by SEUK and National Voices (2017) Summarises use of Social Value Act by CCGs and STPs https://www.socialenterprise.org. uk/healthy-commissioning-how- the-social-value-act-being-used- by-clinical-commissioning-groups

No local mention of social value in EoE STPs https://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/healthy-commissioning-how-the-social-value-act-being-used-by-clinical-commissioning-groups

LAs have similarly mixed engagement Similarly only 14% of English Councils were deemed to be “Embracers” of the Social Value Act Procuring for Good https://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/procuring-for-good Social Enterprise UK, Procuring for Good 2016

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

How is this working locally?

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

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

Examples

Process Oldham Social Value Policy: https://committees.oldham.gov.uk/documents/s72502/Social%20Value%20Report%20OS%20Final%202.pdf _N1H0UQ

Frameworks Social Value Portal: https://socialvalueportal.com/national-toms/

Benefits West Midlands CA Social Value Policy: https://www.wmca.org.uk/media/1921/social-value-policy.pdf