Social Value Action Planning Tool

Welcome to the Social Value Action Planning Tool

The Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 requires public bodies, and people who buy public goods and services, to consider wider social, economic and environmental benefits. Similarly, the National Procurement Policy Statement 2025 sets out the UK Government’s strategic priorities for public procurement and looks to ensure that public procurement processes align with broader governmental goals including:

• Economic Growth – Supporting small business and social enterprises, creating high-quality jobs and encouraging innovation.
• Environmental Sustainability – Accelerating the transition to net zero, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and promoting green technologies.
• Social Value – Reducing crime, strengthening community cohesion and breaking down barriers to opportunity.

At BlueLight Commercial we are committed to supporting these governmental goals and include social value within our tenders and contracts. We are actively promoting best practice and practical support across the 43 police forces in England and Wales as well as fire and rescue services to adopt social value as widely as possible.

It is therefore increasingly important for suppliers to recognise, understand, promote and deliver social value as part of their offering to the public sector.

As part of the guidance and tools provided by BlueLight Commercial is this Social Value Action Planning Tool, offered completely free of charge to existing and potential suppliers to develop and implement their own social value action plans.

The tool will help you to:

• Review the environmental, economic, and social impacts of your business;
• Clearly identify where you are already having a positive social value impact and where you could do potentially deliver more; and
• Create a tailored action plan for your business, demonstrating to customers how you are contributing to the social value issues we all care about.

Social value is important to all public sector bodies and will increasingly be asked as part of the procurement process. By selecting the police forces and/or fire and rescue services you supply, your action plan will automatically be shared with them.

We hope you find this tool of use. To help you get started view a walkthrough of how to create your action plan

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