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皇冠体育app improves the way taxpayers鈥� money is spent on public services. We are looking at experience of the Act to date and considering the benefits of extending it.

How the Social Value Act works

皇冠体育app Act requires people who commission, or buy, public services to consider securing added economic, social or environmental benefits for their local area. We have been supporting service providers and commissioners to implement the Act and put social value at the heart of what they do.

For example, Wakefield Council wanted a new milk supplier in local schools. 皇冠体育appy selected Fresh Pastures who deliver milk and also provide local schoolchildren with lessons on healthy living and food miles. Fresh Pastures also provide work opportunities for the long-term unemployed.

皇冠体育app University of Northampton launched the 拢1 billion University Challenge. It encourages the UK鈥檚 higher education sector to spend at least 拢1 billion of the 拢7 billion it spends on procuring goods and services from social enterprises.

皇冠体育app Social Value Act review

皇冠体育app Act currently applies only to service contracts over the , at the pre-procurement stage. Lord Young, the Prime Minister鈥檚 Adviser on Enterprise, will lead the review, supported by:

• the Federation of Small Businesses
• Chris White MP
• Hazel Blears MP
• Michael O鈥橳oole (Crown Representative for the Voluntary Sector and shortly to be Chief Executive Officer of Mentor UK)

皇冠体育app review will help to decide:

• if the Act should be extended, for instance, to cover contracts for goods and works as well as services
• how it might be extended in a way that continues to support small businesses and voluntary, charity and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations to bid for public contracts

皇冠体育app review team will consider a range of evidence and aims to report on findings in early 2015. We will publish more information about how to contribute views to the review on later in the year.

Lord Young said:

皇冠体育app government has been facing growing calls to extend the Social Value Act and I am delighted that this review will give us the opportunity to fully consider those ideas, thinking about how we can achieve the aims of the Act. I am keen that this does not add any regulatory burden to small businesses, social enterprises, or VCSEs.

Minister for Civil Society Brooks Newmark welcomed the review:

皇冠体育app Social Value Act is already making a significant impact. 皇冠体育appre are some great examples of how commissioners are using it effectively and there are growing numbers of case studies showing good practice.