The Committee will receive a report that follows up from the scrutiny challenge session on the Social Value Act, which went to Overview and Scrutiny Committee (OSC) on 9 May 2017, and a subsequent action plan considered by Cabinet in 27 February 2018. This report reviews the progress against the recommendations and action plan.

The Committee received a report that followed up from the scrutiny challenge session on the Social Value Act, which went to Overview and Scrutiny Committee (OSC) on 9 May 2017, and a subsequent action plan considered by Cabinet in 27 February 2018. The report reviewed the progress against the recommendations and action plan.

The Committee.

• Noted that the Council are looking at best practice to develop and embed the action plan and associated toolkit can be used to from area to area to get the best economic benefit;
• Was informed that Res in the Social Value Basket there was a requirement to quantify the costs involved in lower value contracts to secure those benefits;
• Noted that the Council is legally obliged to consider how something it is procuring might improve the economic social and or environmental well-being of its area;
• Noted that the Council must also consider how the mode of procurement will secure such benefit and indicated that it would wish to see the procurement in regard to the new Town Hall;
• Noted that the Members at the Challenge Session had identified that the development of a Social Value Policy would have the benefit of providing both contractors and residents with a clear definition of expectations and requirements in the commissioning, implementation and evaluation of social value elements;
• Noted that taking steps engage and consult with both communities and potential suppliers to evidence and inform the format, scale and range of the Social Value Policy is therefore at the heart of the review and a focus for recommendations; and
• Was informed that where money spent to increase equality impact through the Social Value Act it is aligned to the council’s priorities.

As a result of discussions on this report the Chair Moved and it was:-

RESOLVED

The Committee noted the updates within the report.