What’s new on the Portal: Units Toolkit Our Portal is always finding new and better ways to help manage and report data. We have an exciting new development on the Social Value Portal: the introduction of a Units Toolkit. The Units Toolkit has been designed to allow Portal
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Social Value Portal Ltd has been accredited as a Living Wage Employer this year. Our Living Wage commitment will see everyone working at Social Value Portal receive a minimum hourly wage of £9.30 in the UK or £10.75 in London. Both rates are significantly higher than
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By Neal Mahtani The Construction industry faces a variety of challenges to overcome. Areas such as employee wellbeing, diversity, and the social value delivered by assets are merely a few examples of topics that are being consistently overlooked, and COVID-19’s impact has only made things more
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You're on mute: Social value a post-COVID world By Guy Battle, CEO It’s been a funny old year and we have all had to learn to deal with a new reality. For some, this has meant urgently procuring PPE, and for others, it has meant dealing with
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A social value approach when ‘Planning for the Future’ By Phoebe Dennis On the 6th August 2020, the UK government published the ‘Planning For The Future’ White Paper, setting out the proposed reforms to the planning system in England within the scope of streamlining the planning process,
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Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA)'s Programme Manager Richard Dooner, tells us what he learned over the two days of the National Social Value Conference: Wales last week (17-18 November 2020). After helping to open the Conference, I nipped out to the virtual lobby and re-joined the
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With our online conference, NSVC20: Wales, just around the corner, we invited our headline sponsor, Bouygues UK, to discuss what Social Value means to them as an organisation and how they're embedding it within their practices. At Bouygues UK, we define Social Value as the activity
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The Social Value Act has transformed public sector procurement and is about to do the same for planning and development. Read our Technical Briefing Note that we completed for the British Council of Offices recently to understand how social value can support you in getting
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Back in August our CEO, Guy Battle, took part in Sunfest, Sunbelt Rentals UK's virtual festival, to discuss the new ‘Social Contract’ and how we can build back better, greener and fairer. You can watch his presentation in the video below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfrzcZ0VDE0&feature=youtu.be Transcript I'd like you to take
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AECOM is one of the largest multidisciplinary consultancies within the built environment, employing over 6000 people in UK and around 56000 globally. Recently we sat down with two representatives from AECOM’s UK and Ireland division, Carmen Harris, social value lead and head of corporate responsibility,
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