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Social Value Policy

Meeting: 14/10/2020 - Cabinet (Item 37)

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To consider the report of the Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods providing an update on the work requested by Cabinet in March 2020 to be carried out and seeking adoption of the Social Value Policy in Appendix 1 for embedding in the City Council’s procurement process.

 

Please note that Appendix 3 is exempt from disclosure to the press and public by virtue of Paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 as amended (information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person including the authority holding that information). If Members wish to discuss Appendix 3 the Cabinet will need to resolve to exclude the press and public before doing so.

 

Additional documents:

Decision:

RESOLVED that:

 

(1)  the adoption of the Social Value Policy in Appendix 1 of the report, to be implemented as part of the City Council’s procurement process be approved; and

 

(2)  responsibility be delegated for the management of the Social Value Toolkit and Gloucester TOM’s measurement framework to the Head of Communities, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods and the City Council Solicitor; and

 

(3)  it be noted that by engaging Social Value Portal Limited to support the City Council and bidders in the delivery of social value, successful bidders for City Council contracts will be required to pay a fee to the Social Value Portal as set out in Appendix 3 of the report.

 

Minutes:

Cabinet considered the report of the Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods that provided an update on the work requested by Cabinet in March 2020 to be carried out and sought adoption of the Social Value Policy in Appendix 1 of the report to embed in the City Council’s procurement process.

 

The Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods informed Members that the ambitious policy with its Gloucester-specific Themes Outcomes and Measures (TOMs) framework would go some way to achieving Cabinet’s long-held aspiration of weaving a `golden thread’ between social benefit and physical renovation.  She expressed confidence that the proposed 10% social value weighting on contract bids would be delivered including by the multi-million-pound regeneration of Kings Quarter with the potential to generate huge social gains.  That the policy was to be considered an evolving document for which Members should be held to account was emphasised by the Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods.  She thanked not only officers but partner and community groups for developing the policy and associated documents despite the difficult circumstances. 

 

The Cabinet Member for Environment advised that Kings Square (agenda item 8) would be the first major project to which the policy would apply and hoped that it would be the first of many to create jobs, teach skills and deliver social value for the city in years to come.  The Cabinet Member for Culture and Leisure noted that the policy would make a real difference to people’s lives long into the future and congratulated the Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods and others for bringing it forward.  The Cabinet Member for Planning and Housing Strategy commented that it would contribute to a fairer and more inclusive city and provide an answer to anyone asking of regeneration `what’s in it for me?’.

 

RESOLVED that:

 

(1)  the adoption of the Social Value Policy in Appendix 1 of the report, to be implemented as part of the City Council’s procurement process be approved; and

 

(2)  responsibility be delegated for the management of the Social Value Toolkit and Gloucester TOM’s measurement framework to the Head of Communities, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods and the City Council Solicitor; and

 

(3)  it be noted that by engaging Social Value Portal Limited to support the City Council and bidders in the delivery of social value, successful bidders for City Council contracts will be required to pay a fee to the Social Value Portal as set out in Appendix 3 of the report.