The National Social Value Conference 2017 focused on BRIDGING THE GAP between the public, private, voluntary sectors and communities, identifying the challenges and opportunities for working together to build a stronger and a more resilient society. The event was designed to ensure that there were opportunities to learn from tailored and high quality content, but also to contribute to the development of a broader social value agenda for both public and private sector organisations.

The keynote panel included the CEO of Trafford Council, Theresa Grant, Jonathon Porritt OBE, Founder Director of Forum for the Future, Ben Marson, Director of Partnerships at the Prince’s Trust, and Rt. Hon. Hazel Blears, a leading member of the National Advisory Board on Impact Investing.

Following the keynote panel, the National Social Value Taskforce released the National TOMs Framework 2018.

After the National TOMs Launch, there were 4 interactive sessions arranged, with each session being repeated twice to allow delegates to attend more than one. Details of each session and the slides for each session are below.

We are delighted to welcome Andy Street, newly appointed Mayor of the West Midlands Combined Authority. Andy will tell us about his vision for the West Midlands and how embedding social value into procurement and contract management is an essential tool in delivering better value to the region.

If social value were integrated into the planning system it could deliver an additional £15bn in additional value. Despite this fact, planners and developers are struggling to find common ground and a common language to discuss and agree measures that deliver additional social value. This session will explore how this opportunity can be unlocked and how our planning system may be updated to ensure Social Value is included as a prerequisite for permission.

Speakers will include David Green, Director, Delta Planning, Alan Sarjant, Senior Vice President, Prologis UK, Julie Venn-Morton, Skills and Growth Manager, Coventry City Council, Rachel Woolliscroft, Sustainability Director, Wates Group and Terry Brewer, Public Sector Executive, Social Value Portal. This session will be chaired by Guy Battle, CEO of Social Value Portal.

Devolution offers the opportunity for public sector organisations to develop longer term strategies and partnerships to solve some of the more difficult challenges in their region. Following on from the presentation by the Mayor of West Midlands, this session will run by members from the West Midlands Combined Authority and will look specifically at how organisations can collaborate and develop stronger supplier partnerships as well as exploring the potential of cross border collaboration to meet the greatest needs.

Speakers will include Roger Forsdyke, Managing director for Construction in the Southern Counties at Willmott Dixon, Rachael Morgan, Head of Procurement at WMCA, Peter Wilding, Head of Strategy, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Haydn Brown, Head of Procurement Strategy and Development, Birmingham City Council and Lorraine Cox, Director of STAR Procurement. This session will be chaired by Melanie Mills, Social Sector Engagement Director, Big Society Capital.

Frameworks offer a unique opportunity to develop longer term private/public sector partnerships, creating scope to plan sustainably and invest in communities for the future. This session will look at best practice in how Social Value can be embedded into the commissioning, procurement and delivery of frameworks. It will explore how excelling standards of performance and contract management can ensure consistency and greater certainty of outcomes for local communities through stretching targets, and how the growing drive from clients for a diversity of socio-economic impacts can be achieved through innovating long term partnering and collaboration.

Speakers include David Boyer, Assistant Director Transport and Operations, Warrington Borough Council, Alison Ramsay, Frameworks Coordinator, John Simons Head of Procurement and Audit at Scape Procure, Phil Wright, Framework Director, Balfour Beatty and Jane Kemp, Owner, Adducere LLP. The session will be chaired by the managing director of SCAPE, Victoria Brambini.

The event will be wrapped up with a final speech from Chris White, sponsor of the Social Value Act, and closing remarks from Darren Knowd, the incoming Chair of the Social Value Taskforce, followed by drinks and canapes.

Produced by the West Midlands Fire Service for the National Social Value Conference 2017.

Theresa Grant has been Chief Executive at Trafford Council since 2011 and is the Lead Chief Executive for the Employment & Skills portfolio for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority region, as well as the Lead for GM Procurement Hub. She is a career public servant with 39 years’ experience in Local Government in both Ireland and the UK. Theresa is a graduate of the Masters of Business Administration programme at Manchester Metropolitan University and is also a Trustee of the Irish World Heritage Centre Charity in Manchester, a Board member of the Halle and a Non-Executive Director of John Laing Infrastructure Fund Board. Theresa is a dynamic, forward thinking leader with a passion for delivering strategic change and innovation through creativity and collaboration. 

Trafford Council

Jonathon Porritt, Co-Founder of Forum for the Future, is an eminent writer, broadcaster and commentator on sustainable development. Established in 1996, Forum for the Future is now the UK’s leading sustainable development charity. The Forum has a growing presence in the United States, India, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. In addition he is a Non-Executive Director of Willmott Dixon Holdings, a Trustee of Ashden, and a Director of Collectively (an online platform celebrating sustainable innovation). He was formerly Director of Friends of the Earth, co-chair of the Green Party and as Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission until 2009, he spent nine years providing high-level advice to Government Ministers. Jonathon was installed as the Chancellor of Keele University in February 2012. He is also Visiting Professor at Loughborough University and UCL. Recent books are ‘Capitalism As If The World Matters’ (2007) and ‘The World We Made’ (2013) – which seeks to inspire people about the prospects of a sustainable world in 2050. Jonathon received a CBE in January 2000 for services to environmental protection.

Forum For the Future  Jonathon Porritt

Jerome Baddley, Head of the Sustainable Development Unit for the Health and Social Care system in England.

The Unit is funded by Public Health England and NHS England to work across the health and social care system; supporting and encouraging local health systems to improve health and the quality of local healthcare by become more environmentally, socially and economic sustainable.

Jerome has worked for 17 years in sustainable development in public, private and 3^rd sectors. He led a team to produce the first NHS carbon management plans (2008), the Nottingham City 2020 Energy Strategy (2010), and the regional natural resource footprint for the NHS in the East Midlands (2012). He has spent 10 years supporting organisations and communities to implement strategic and practical measures in sustainable development and resource efficiency. He is a past winner of the Queens Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development and the BMJ global award for Sustainable Healthcare.

Sustainable Development Unit

Simon has been qualified since July 1995, having graduated from the University of Warwick, and gained his professional membership of the IHM (the Institute of Healthcare Management) in 1996, appointed a fellow of the IHM (by Assessment) in 2004, and a Masters of Public Administration (MPA) from the University of Warwick (2007) and a Post Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution Studies (2008) from Coventry University, and holds visiting academic professorships at the University of Warwick & Coventry University. Simon has worked in a variety of general and senior management roles across health and social care, within the National Health Service in hospitals, commissioning, and central government policy until 2006, then as a senior officer for Coventry City Council and for the past 2 years as a chief officer working in primary and community care across the NHS for Coventry & Rugby. Since April 2017, Simon has been working as Chief Officer for Walsall CCG.

Walsall Clinical Commissioning Group

After working in Local Government for over 18 years Victoria continues her commitment to the public sector after joining Scape in 2014.

As a Chartered Surveyor, Victoria has a successful track record in project leadership, strategic asset management and contract and performance management in a broad spectrum of built environment and public service teams, demonstrating skills in community engagement and organisational change alongside dynamic political interfacing.

Victoria brings to Scape a deep understanding of the drive for local economic sustainability, public sector efficiency and service transformation to meet the challenges of changing community needs and government policy. Her role in heading up Scape Procure drives this agenda forward, achieving excellence in contract innovations and performance and securing better client outcomes.

Scape Procure

Ben Carpenter is operations manager for Social Value UK. Ben manages the assurance & accreditation services for Social Value International. He oversees the development of the Report Assurance Criteria for Social Impact reports and has expanded Social Value UK’s service to include accreditation of social impact training courses and software products. All of the assurance services are designed to test for consistency with the internationally recognised Principles of Social Value. Ben is secretariat for Social Value International’s Assurance Technical Committee, is a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s working group titled “Redefining Assurance” and sits on the judging panels for the SE100 index and FSI Social Impact awards.

Ben also oversees the development of online resources specifically the Global Value Exchange and the Social Value Self-Assessment Tool. Ben is part of the OECD working group on Social Impact Data. Before working for SVUK Ben worked in Property Development, Social Housing Asset Management and the Homelessness Sector. He also holds degrees in Politics & Communications and the Built Environment.

Social Value UK

Roger joined the industry over 30 years ago as an engineer. Since becoming part of Willmott Dixon over 15 years ago, Roger has been pivotal to the company’s growth in the Southern Home Counties, including being part of the Cobham office when it opened in 2004 and helping to grow a successful company that now employs over 250 people.
Prior to becoming MD for the South in 2014, Roger held a series of operational roles that gave him a track-record for ‘hands on’ delivery of projects. This stood him in good stead for his role overseeing a fast growing region for Willmott Dixon.
As MD for the South, which operates from offices in Cobham and Dartford, Roger is responsible for a £185 million turnover business. He also leads on the leisure and hotel sector, providing strategic input and direction for our service in these important areas of production.

Willmott Dixon

David Green is Director and founder of town planning consultancy, Delta Planning.  He is a Chartered Surveyor and Chartered Town Planner with over 25 years of private sector consultancy experience.  Based in the Midlands, Delta Planning specialises in the strategy and co-ordination of major planning applications, particularly in the logistics, residential and education sectors

Delta Planning

James is the Senior Partner in a nationally renowned, award winning General Practice in the North West of England. He has a wealth of experience in primary care, medical education and medical politics.

He is President of the National Association of Primary Care (UK) having previously served as Chairman from 2004-08. He is the co-author of the new care model for the NHS, the Primary Care Home, and is now one of the two national leads for the programme.

National Association of Primary Care

A champion of work-based learning and values-based leadership, with an engineering, public and private sector background, CFO Phil Loach is responsible for leading 2000+ employees and a budget c. £100m at the largest Fire and Rescue Service outside of London, making sure the 2.7m people within the West Midlands Combined Authority area are ‘Safer, Stronger and Healthier’ whilst also providing capability to support national resilience and international rescue.

Initially joining WMFS as a Firefighter and eventually serving as Assistant and Deputy Chief, Phil became Chief Fire Officer in November 2013, more recently combining his post with a number of national roles including Vice-Chair of the National Fire Chief’s Council, the National Operational Guidance Programme, NSAT and the LGA Advisory Forum. In addition, Phil has played an active role in Government’s agenda to reform public services, becoming Chief Executive of Public Service Reform (PSR) for West Midlands Combined Authority in October 2016.

West Midlands Fire Service

Agnese has worked as an economist in academia, during post graduate studies at Bocconi University and as visiting researcher at Harvard University. She has worked as an innovation consultant for public sector, education and third sector organisations across Europe and the U.S., developing experience in facilitating co-design processes and community engagement. As Head of Research at the Social Value Portal, she leads the economic modelling of social value proxies and the design of community-integrated social value measurement systems. She has been leading the technical design of the National Social Value Measurement (TOMs) Framework and Tool Kit.

Social Value Portal

Cindy is a Contract & Supply Specialist at Orbis, a shared services partnership between Brighton and Hove City Council, East Sussex and Surrey County Councils. The Orbis partnership operates the Procurement, Property, Finance, Business Operations, HR & OD, IT and Digital, and Revenues and Benefits functions across all three councils. Today 2,000 employees work under a joint operating budget of £63m, making us one of the largest local government shared service partnerships in the UK.
Cindy joined Orbis in 2013 and has over 15 years’ of experience working in Procurement & Supply Chain Management. As the previous Social Value lead for Procurement she developed and implemented the Orbis Social Value Strategy, winning the 2017 award for Promoting and Mainstreaming the Social Value Act and being shortlisted for the Individual Leadership award for Social Value. Cindy is passionate about improving collaboration between the Public, Private and Third Sector, her focus being to promote a culture of civic leadership and enable the delivery of sustainable social value initiatives. Prior to joining Orbis, Cindy held various Strategy and Business Operations roles in the Republic of Ireland, India and South Africa.

Graham is an expert in bringing together not for profits, public sector and corporates in unique joint ventures to solve the long term issues that really matter. He has been doing so at Legal & General for over 10 years and was awarded in 2012 as a Business In The Community Game Changer and a Global Sustainability Leaders Award in Mumbai in Feb 2016.

He also sits on the board of growing small charity, The 4 Cancer Group providing families affected with cancer with respite as well a capacity building charity for small charities The Foundation for Social Improvement , is a founding member of Social Enterprise Assist Investment and a member of the advisory panel for Career Volunteer.

Legal and General Group Plc

Alison is the Frameworks Coordinator, arranging and conducting operational activities relating to the compliance and performance management of the frameworks, supporting the Scape Procure team to drive partner collaboration and client project successes. Alison joined Scape in July 2015 with 10 years’ experience of local government working in various property related roles, following on from eight years working in the London office of a multinational law firm.

Scape Procure

Shariat is a business consultant with extensive experience across private, public and the third sector.  His first 10 years’ experience was focused on IT integration in multinational companies, followed by another long spell in publicly funded business support at Birmingham Chambers of Commerce.  Over the last 5 years, Shariat has led the establishment of social value policies, procedures and practices at Birmingham City Council, including the Birmingham Business Charter for Social Responsibility.  This is a best practice example of implementing Social Value in a Local Authority. He has also contributed to the development of the West Midlands Combined Authority policy. Shariat’s experience includes a thorough study of various social value measurement methodologies as well as developing an automation system.

Shariat has recently established Social Value Plus Community Interest Company, a not for profit company dedicated to helping businesses deliver quality social value that addresses the needs of their public sector clients.

Social Value Plus

John is the Head of Procurement and Audit, leading the development and implementation of Scape’s Procurement and Audit strategies, supporting the Executive Leadership Team to deliver best practice, improve performance and create value for our clients. He is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply. John has over 30 years’ experience within the Public sector, working for Borough, District and City Councils as well as in the Housing sector. He has a background in Finance and considerable experience in both facilities management and construction procurement.

Scape Procure

Julie is the Skills and Growth Manager for the Economic Development Service of Coventry City Council and has been actively involved in the City’s Skills and Economic Agenda for over 20 years. Julie commenced her career with the Council as a Business and Public Administration Apprentice which provided her with a good solid spring board for her career journey to her current role. She started her working life in the Chief Executives Secretariat and then progressed to the Careers Service, before managing a Construction Employment Unit prior to finally joining the Economic Development Service.  Julie is passionate about her City and is especially keen to ensure that local people and local businesses benefit from new development and growth in the City. She leads on Economic Social Value for the Authority ensuring both the procurement and planning processes place consideration.

Coventry City Council

Chris White served as the Member of Parliament for Warwick and Leamington between 2010 and 2017. His Private Member’s Bill, now the Public Services (Social Value) Act, received Royal Assent in March 2012.

Chris was a member of the International Development and Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committees.
Chris lives in Warwick and has recently been appointed to the role of President of the Warwickshire College Group, is a Patron of the International Development Charity Cord, based in Coventry and is Vice Chair of the think tank, Policy Connect. He maintains a strong interest in the progress of the Act.

Having worked within the construction industry for nearly 20 years,  Rachel is passionate about the role that business can make in transforming communities both through its buildings but also the legacy it can create during its work and beyond. She is currently Sustainability Director for Wates Group – leading a strategy which ensures we have a positive impact on the environment and communities in which we work whilst creating a more diverse and inclusive workplace. Wates are committed to ensuring their actions today impact on tomorrow and are proud to have been recently awarded the Queens Award for Sustainable Development for the second consecutive time. .

In addition, Rachel participates in a number of industry forums including  Build UK to tackle the skills agenda within the industry and  the future of sustainable buildings. She is Board Director of the Institute for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability – a professional body for the growing CR and sustainability discipline, editor for some of the industry publications and a school governor on a multi academy trust.

Wates Group

Phil is a civil engineer with over 30 years’ experience in the construction industry. He has worked on the design and construction of projects as diverse as sea defences, roads, water treatment works and football stadia. This has provided first-hand experience of the social value benefits which large infrastructure projects can have on the communities in which they are constructed.

Since 2015, Phil has been responsible for infrastructure projects across the UK through Balfour Beatty’s position on the Scape Civil Engineering and Infrastructure framework. He is a strong advocate of collaborative framework arrangements in the construction industry, and the benefit which they can bring to both project delivery and to the social value added through the construction process.

Balfour Beatty

Julian Blake is a specialist Social Enterprise and Social Business lawyer. He has engaged with the public service commissioning environment for over 25 years, with a particular focus on the underpinning of Public Procurement and State Aid reform by the European Commission’s Social Business Initiative. He is the co-author, with Frank Villeneuve-Smith of HCT Group, the influential transport social enterprise, of “The Art of the Possible in Public Procurement”, which has been widely welcomed for championing purpose, permissiveness and proportionality in procurement process. Social Value and Social Impact are very much a part of the art of the possible. He contributed this perspective to the procurement working group of the UK National Advisory Board on Impact Investing in relation to the “The Rise of Impact” report published on 16 October 2017. He works with Social Business International’s E3M Group of CEOs leading commercial-scale social enterprises delivering public services, the parallel Bold Commissioners Group and the E3M programme to harmonise the engagement of commissioners, suppliers and social finance institutions with local authority public service innovation projects, giving Social Value an equivalence to quality and price factors: J.Blake@bwbllp.com; 0207 551 7746

Bates Wells Braithwaite

Ailbhe McNabola is the Head of Research and Policy at Power to Change Trust. She has 15 years’ experience in research and analysis in policy-relevant fields, having started her career in management consultancy at Accenture and then PA Consulting, followed by a role evaluating policy implementation at the UK National Audit Office, and then heading up the research and policy teams at the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, and the UK Design Council.

Power to Change 

Alan is a Senior Vice President with responsibility for major development projects in the West Midlands and has led on Prologis projects with an end value of over £1Bn. He sits on the UK Executive Committee and has over 30 years’ experience in the industrial and logistics property sector.  He joined Prologis in 1998 having previously been a Development Director at Kingspark Developments.

Alan has a BSc (Hons) in Land Management from the College of Estate Management at Reading University and is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Alan’s expertise is in site regeneration, land acquisition and assembly, planning, property marketing and leasing and he has been responsible for helping Prologis UK define its Social Value Policy.

Prologis UK

Haydn is the Head of Procurement Strategy and Development in Corporate Procurement Services at Birmingham City Council. Having worked in Local Government and the NHS since 1988, he initially trained as a Quantity Surveyor before moving into Procurement. Haydn has experience of managing capital contracts as well as Facilities Management, Transport, Utilities and Waste categories.

In January 2014 he moved into his current role which broadly covers the development and implementation of procurement strategy and policy, training, collaboration and commercialism.

A big part of achieving policy through procurement was the commitment in the June 2012 Leader’s Policy Statement to introduce a Birmingham Business Charter for Social Responsibility (BBC4SR) to harness the significant potential of Birmingham’s purchasing power to boost the local economy.

Recent achievements include refreshing the Council’s Social Value Policy, Living Wage Policy and BBC4SR; development and launch of the Council’s Commissioning Strategy 2017+; supporting the development of the West Midlands Combined Authority Social Value Policy and the National Social Value Taskforce’s TOMs and working with the LGA around Encouraging Innovation.

Haydn and his team continue to develop their approach to Social Value in commissioning to achieve the policy outcomes of being a fair, prosperous and democratic city.

Birmingham City Council

Liz Holford MBA MCIPS has led programmes to generate, measure and report social value in public and private sector supply chains since 2002. She’s proud to have presented her work at events at 10 Downing Street, the European Commission and the United Nations in New York.

Currently working within the supply chain of HS2 Ltd, and for clients including the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB), Network Rail Thameslink Programme, Royal Academy of Engineering and Partners in the Supply Chain Sustainability School, Liz is particularly passionate about finding collaborative approaches to complex challenges so that they deliver benefits to business, communities and the planet.

Supply Chain Future

David graduated from Liverpool University in 1987.  Since graduating he has had 30 years involvement in the engineering, project management, design, construction, delivery and commissioning of highway, transportation, maintenance, drainage, public health and environmental improvement works and services in both the public and private sectors in the United Kingdom.

David worked at Liverpool City Council from 1996 to 2005 where he was responsible for all Highway Authority issues in the City including major projects such as the City Centre Movement Strategy and Liverpool One Development.  David then moved to Cheshire County Council where he had responsibility for the Project Services Division.

David started work with Warrington in 2008.  In his current role he has responsibility for all transportation, engineering and environmental management operation services delivered by the Council.

Warrington Borough Council

Rachael Morgan has been a procurement professional within the public sector for over 15 years now. During this time she has managed numerous large procurement projects ranging from Smarter Travel Choices, the creation of Legal and Building Surveying Support Panels and the development of Park and Ride Projects. Rachael currently manages a team of procurement professionals and is also the chair of the WMCA Sustainable Procurement Working Group and the WMCA Social Value Taskforce Group. It is through the Social Value Taskforce Group that the Social Value Policy was created, in liaison with Combined Authority constituent and non constituent members and the Social Value Portal. Rachael continues to lead on this policy and its implementation into the procurement process and looks forward to sharing the wider results with the region.

West Midlands Combined Authority 

Dr Ann Marie Connolly is Deputy Director for Health and Wellbeing at Public Health England (PHE). She leads the programme of work for the organisation on Healthy Places, focusing on the impact of the built and natural environment has on health and well being. Originally trained as a GP, Dr Connolly has been working in public health for more than 25 years, including 10 years as a Director of Public Health in London. Over her career she has held a variety of public health roles within and outside of the UK.

Public Health England

Until co-founding niche property consultancy Adducere LLP in 2009, Jane was a solicitor and has over 20 years experience in the Property Market. Her career experience has been both client side, as an in-house solicitor with national property companies, and she has also occupied senior positions with law firms – Eversheds, Hammonds and Clarke Willmott. Jane continues to work with DLA Piper as a consultant. In September 2016 Jane co-founded the West Midlands Women’s Voice Group which aims to ensure that the voice of women influences emerging policy from the West Midlands Combined Authority. Jane’s recent focus is on a joint venture between Adducere LLP and Wilmott Dixon to provide public bodies with an alternative funding model through Adjuto Funding Solutions.

Adducere LLP

Lorraine brings many years of commissioning and procurement leadership and strategic direction from her previous role at Halton Borough Council and from working across the Liverpool City Region.  Lorraine is rapidly growing the innovative shared procurement service currently serving Stockport, Trafford and Rochdale, by working closely with many public sector partners across Greater Manchester and beyond, using procurement as a ‘vehicle’ for positive change. STAR fully embrace Social Value as a key focus in their new business plan (2017-2020) and this underpins another key focus to drive local spend improvement. Lorraine designed and delivered an award-winning concept for Halton Borough Council and received a national award ‘Best Council to do Business With’ which she received at No.10 Downing St. She personally contributed to the improvement of Public Contract Regulations 2015 and Lord Young’s Reforms as she attended a Select Committee in the House of Commons to respond to a Public Procurement Review.

STAR Procurement

Melanie was previously the Chief Executive of Social Enterprise West Midlands (SEWM) CIC and led the organisation from a publicly funded project to a sustainable social enterprise through four years of trading and growth. SEWM’s income was directly generated through the sales of products and services so she has first-hand experience of the challenges and opportunities that social sector organisations face in order to be successful businesses.

Melanie brings a frontline perspective to the Big Society Capital team and particularly focuses on developing relationships with social enterprises and charities across the Midlands and the North of the UK and raising awareness of social investment. Since joining the team she has helped lead the Social Investment Tax Relief Campaign ‘Get sITr’, has instigated a new initiative Let’s Talk Good Finance and is passionate about our most recent initiative GETINFORMED – Social Investment for Boards. Melanie is passionate about helping to translate the opportunities that social investment can present to help social enterprises and charities create even more social impact.

Melanie is also the Social enterprise champion for the Greater Birmingham and Solihull LEP, Chair of Governors at a Local Authority Maintained School and a Charity Trustee in her spare time.

Big Society Capital

Until recently Terry was Divisional Director Commercial and Procurement running a shared procurement service across the London Boroughs of Brent and Harrow with a combined third party spend of £0.5bn. Prior to that he was Chief Procurement Officer in LB Camden, was Chief Executive of Firebuy a national Procurement agency for the fire service and was Head of Procurement in London Fire Brigade. His other roles included being Chair of the London Heads of Procurement network, deputy chair of the Local Government Association’s National Advisory Group and national category lead for ICT and social value. Terry is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply.

Social Value Portal

Guy Battle is the CEO of the Social Value Portal (2014), a social enterprise focused on helping organisation embed social value into day to day business. Guy has developed a deep understanding about the practicalities of measuring and managing the delivery of social value through his work with a range of local authorities and businesses including Harrow, Birmingham City Council, Barclays and Legal & General. Guy is a part of the National Advisory Board (NAB) on Social Impact and the founder of the National Social Value Taskforce.

Social Value Portal

Currently Liz manages a shared procurement service for Coventry, Solihull, and works in partnership with Warwickshire, Nuneaton and Bedworth and Rugby councils. To date, the shared service has won the SOPO award for outstanding achievement in Procurement twice and been a finalist 5 times. The service continues to deliver significant savings and efficiencies for the participating authorities.

A career in both the public and private sectors has seen Liz working for the Health Service Supply Council, Sealink UK, Islington Council and South Glamorgan County Council. Since joining Solihull in 1988, she has had many roles, Principal Purchasing Officer, Head of Organisational Effectiveness, Corporate Procurement Manager and now Head of Shared Procurement Service in Solihull and Assistant Director Procurement in Coventry. Her experience in these roles include, PFI, PPP, strategic partnering including co-location with Severn Trent procurement staff for 6 months, partnering contracts using Egan principles, and experience of delivering significant savings, efficiencies and cost avoidance in all the major categories of local authority spend. Her MSc in Procurement explored the cultural barriers to collaboration in a shared procurement service.

Liz currently is a representative on the LGA’s National Advisory Group for Local Government Procurement and as such has played an active role in developing the National Procurement Strategy, chairs the national construction workstream for NAG and participates in the innovation and skills workstreams.

Solihull MBC 

Coventry City Council

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