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• • • • • • • Essex County Council's 1st Social Value Festival 

 

Day 1: Social Value movement and ECC Social Value Priorities

Please access the recordings by clicking on the the link below:

Introduction to Essex County Council Social Value Festival 7-minute video by Councillor Whitbread, Cabinet Member for Finance, Resources and Corporate Affairs

Social Value: The Vision  12-minute video by Professor Chris White, Director of the Industrial Policy and Insight Centre at the Manufacturing Technology Centre, shared the original aspirations for the Social Value Act.

Samantha Butler, ECC Social Value Lead and Cabinet Office Head of Social Value Skills and Engagement  outlined ECC's approach to scoring and measuring Social Value and the Social Value Catalogue. Click here to access the slides

• • Breakout 1: Social Value: The Opportunity for Vendors looks at the case for social value from the vendor's perspective. Speakers: Dr Joshua Pritchard, Senior Policy Advisor, Public Sector Markets, CBI. Ben Carpenter, CEO, Social Value International. Louise Townsend, Head of Social Value and Sustainability, Morgan Sindall

• • Breakout 2: Social Value and the Climate explored how social value can help us to contribute to addressing environmental challenges. 
    • • • Samantha Kennedy, Director for Environment & Climate Action.
        • Sarah Howard, Procurement Climate Lead
        • Pradyumna Pandit, Energy, Sales and Development Managing Director, Mitie
  • Breakout 3: Social Value: Creating New jobs and Skills Laura Lee, Head of Procurement, moderated the session. Speakers were:
    • • • Danielle Foster, Resource Delivery and Strategy Manager, ECC (PDF, 1,182KB)
        • Susanne Davis, High Needs Funding & Targeted Employment Manager, Children and Young People with Disabilities Service SEND Strategy and Innovation, ECC
        • Rob Brunger, Head of Inclusion and Engagement, Human Resources Department, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (PDF, 880KB)

 

Day 2: National TOMs, ECC TOMs and Social Value opportunities for SMEs

• • Breakout 1: National 'TOMs' method and ECC framework Keynote: Peter Holbrook CBE, Chief Executive of Social Enterprise UK. (extract) provided a national perspective on the importance of social value in the bidding process.
    • • • Cindy Nadesan, Senior Public Sector Account Manager at the Social Value Portal described the context and origins of the 'NTOMs' and how Councils across the country use them to evaluate and score bids. Click here to access the slides
        • Samantha Butler, ECC Social Value Lead outlined the specific tendering processes used by ECC to include social value using the ECC TOMs and available resources to suppliers to help them prepare their social value bids. Click here to access slides

• • Breakout 2: Social Value at Essex County Council for SMEs This session demystified some of the terms and procedures used at ECC and provided details of the ECC Social Value Framework  - the 'ECC TOMs'. Keynote speaker: Arnab Dutt, Chair of SV Policy at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), member of UK Government's SME Panel and entrepreneur gave his perspective on the importance of SME's engagement in the Social Value agenda.
    • • • Samantha Butler, Social Value Lead at ECC outlined the procedures used by ECC. Click here to access slides
        • Alasdair Heselgrave, Regeneration Officer, Matrix SCM, shared his perspective on the opportunities for SMEs. Click here to access slides

 

Day 3: Opportunities for Social Enterprises and Voluntary Organisations; and Health and Social Care

• • Breakout 1: Social Value Webinar for Charities and Social Enterprises Keynote speaker: Claire Dove CBE, UK Government's Crown Representative for VCSEs outlined the importance of social value to public sector spending and support for the voluntary sector
    • • • Samantha Butler, Social Value Lead at ECC outlined the procedures used by ECC. Click here to access the slides
        • Jason Fergus, Head of Active Essex, explored the opportunities for social value creation Click here to access the slides
        • Jethro Picton, Targeted Employment Officer, ECC set out a grant funding opportunity for social enterprises. Click here to access the slides

• • Breakout 2: Social Value in health and social care. Focused on health and social care market. Keynote: Councillor John Spence, Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care
    • • • Steve Ede, Head of Procurement (People), ECC, explored how to maximize Social Value through commissioning and procuring health and social care services and goods.
        • Andrew Urquhart, Sustainability Lead, West Suffolk CCG, Ipswich & East Suffolk CCG, shared a health practitioner perspective and demonstrate the alignment of climate change and social value agenda Click here to access the slides
        • Samantha Butler, Social Value Lead, ECC outlined the procedures used by ECC. Click here to access the slides
        • Glen Baxter, Regional Director, Millbrook Healthcare a supplier perspective of social value.

 

Day 4: Social Value for Employment and Skills; and for Tech and Digital Sectors

• • Breakout 1: Social Value for Employment and Skills Jayne Rumary, Commissioner for Skills Development at ECC moderated the session, click here to access the panel discussion. 
    • • • Jess Flack, Commissioner for Skills Development, ECC
        • Toni Marshall, Employer Engagement Officer, Adult Community Learning
        • Emma Wyatt and Tina McKenzie, Targeted Employment Officers
        • Gary Young, Business Operations Director, Fujitsu
  • Breakout 2: Social value in the Technology and Digital Sectors Keynote speaker: Henry Rex, Associate Director at TechUK. 

• • • • • Ben Unsworth, Director of Service Transformation at Essex County Council, outlined the opportunities presented by social value and what could be achieved in Essex. Click here to access the slides
        • Samantha Butler, Social Value Lead, Essex County Council gave an overview of the procedures used by ECC to evaluate, score and measure social value. Click here to access the slides
        • Glen Ocskó, Head of Local Government at Made Tech, closed the panel session, talking about his views on Social Value as an SME working in the design and digital world.