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Social Value
The Public Service (Social Value) Act 2012 requires all public authorities to consider how the services they commission will improve the social, environmental and economic wellbeing of communities. It involves looking beyond the price of each individual contract and looking at what the collective benefit to a community is when a public body chooses to award a contract. Social value asks the question: ‘If we spend on the delivery of services, can that same investment be used to also deliver a wider benefit to the community?’ 

The Act offers real opportunities for local authorities and public sector organisations to increase the range of training and employment opportunities available locally to people with a disability. 

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