Social Care Value Act 2012
Dear Southend-on-Sea City Council,
I would like to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) regarding the use of Social Value in your organisation’s commissioning processes for care and accommodation services for Children Looked After.
1. The Social Value Act 2012 requires commissioning authorities to give consideration at the pre-procurement stage to how what is to be procured may improve the social, environmental and economic well-being of the relevant area over and above the core delivery of a contract; how any such improvement might be secured; and the need to consult.
Does your organisation give consideration to Social Value in commissioning the following services?
• Independent Fostering Agencies (IFAs)
• Residential children’s homes and/or parent and child units
• 16+ semi-independent accommodation
• Accommodation services for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
2. If so, what Social Value/added value outcomes does your organisation seek to achieve from either procurement exercises or contracts for these services?
3. How does your organisation communicate its required Social Value outcomes to service providers (e.g. face-to-face engagement, building Social Value requirements into service specifications, including Social Value questions within the quality section of Invitations to Tender, etc.)?
4. If your organisation includes Social Value questions within Invitations to Tender for these services, approximately what weighting is given to these questions?
5. How are Social Value outcomes/returns measured and evaluated within your contract management processes for these services?
6. What impact, if any, has been achieved for your local area as a result of including Social Value within your organisation’s commissioning process for these services?
7. What financial return, if any, has been achieved as a result of including Social Value within your organisation’s commissioning process for these services?
Yours faithfully,
Andrew Bell
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Dear A Bell,
Re: Freedom of Information Request – FOI 12902
I am writing regarding your request for information, which was received on
16^th April 2023.
In that request you asked us for information below:
I would like to request the following information under the Freedom of
Information Act (2000) regarding the use of Social Value in your
organisation’s commissioning processes for care and accommodation services
for Children Looked After.
1. The Social Value Act 2012 requires commissioning authorities to give
consideration at the pre-procurement stage to how what is to be procured
may improve the social, environmental and economic well-being of the
relevant area over and above the core delivery of a contract; how any such
improvement might be secured; and the need to consult.
Does your organisation give consideration to Social Value in commissioning
the following services?
• Independent Fostering Agencies (IFAs)
• Residential children’s homes and/or parent and child units
• 16+ semi-independent accommodation
• Accommodation services for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
2. If so, what Social Value/added value outcomes does your organisation
seek to achieve from either procurement exercises or contracts for these
services?
3. How does your organisation communicate its required Social Value
outcomes to service providers (e.g. face-to-face engagement, building
Social Value requirements into service specifications, including Social
Value questions within the quality section of Invitations to Tender,
etc.)?
4. If your organisation includes Social Value questions within Invitations
to Tender for these services, approximately what weighting is given to
these questions?
5. How are Social Value outcomes/returns measured and evaluated within
your contract management processes for these services?
6. What impact, if any, has been achieved for your local area as a result
of including Social Value within your organisation’s commissioning process
for these services?
7. What financial return, if any, has been achieved as a result of
including Social Value within your organisation’s commissioning process
for these services?
I can confirm that the search for the information you requested has been
completed and I can advise you of the following:
1. Yes.
2.
• Local economy
• The environment
• Children and families
• Promoting health, care and wellbeing for all ages
3. For frameworks in the service specifications and social value question
in tender
4. 10%.
5. Each provider details how they will monitor and assure the quality and
delivery of the commitments as part of the tender questions.
6. Increased provision locally helping the local economy and keeping
children in care local.
7. None.
If you wish to discuss any of the above, please contact me. Please
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Yours sincerely,
Lewis Hepton
Customer Support Co-Ordinator
Information Rights Support Team
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