We are delighted to announce that the Social Value Portal has now officially joined the G-Cloud 10 framework available on the Digital Marketplace and is currently the sole provider for measuring, procuring, managing and monitoring social value. The benefits for SVP of being on G-Cloud is
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“We are, of course, focused on getting the maximum benefit locally from council spending and that has led us to make a major push on ‘social value’: leveraging our procurement expenditure to create jobs and skill up local people and to generate opportunities for local
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How does the National Themes Outcomes and Measures (TOMs) Framework for social value measurement account for social value and relate to other measurement solutions? Our Head of Research, Agnese Mizia explains. In order to answer both questions, we at the Social Value Portal have worked with
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Earlier this year, the Sustainable Development Unit (SDU)* commissioned the Social Value Portal to develop a social value measurement tool for organisations operating within the health and social and social care system. The ‘Social Value Calculator’ is now live and can be downloaded from the
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We are delighted to announce our partnership with Social Value Plus. The Social Value Portal and Social Value Plus will be collaborating to support the delivery of social value services in the West Midlands. Our procurement, measurement, management and reporting portal will complement the local
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We were pleased to contribute recently to an Innovation Briefing on “Measuring Social Value” published by the New Local Government Network (NLGN) with Wilmott Dixon. To read the full Briefing then you’ll need to subscribe to be a member of NLGN which you can do
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A Summary of Chris White’s review of the Social Value Act Five years on from the Social Value Act becoming legislation, England and the rest of the UK are in a very different position both economically and politically. How has the Act influenced and helped to
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Implementing social value into public-sector procurement alone could add an additional £60 Billion benefit to communities. The National Themes Outcomes and Measures (TOMs) Framework for social value measurement has been launched at the National Social Value Conference in Birmingham 14th November, where the speakers included Chris White,
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The National Social Value Conference 2017 #BridgingTheGap was held in Birmingham 14th November. It was a great event with over 250 delegates attending. There are too many highlights to mention them all but amongst the most memorable were the key note panel chaired by Hazel
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The Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) are a measure of relative deprivation used to rank neighbourhoods across the UK. Deprivation is essentially defined as ‘a lack of…’, and the IMD is intended to offer multidimensional information on material living conditions in an area or neighbourhood based on a
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