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Essex County Council - Provider Hub
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Strategic Actions 

  • Establish baseline position of care market against Carbon Net Zero ambition.
  • Raise awareness, train  and educate our social care market on the value of  climate, environment & social value
  • Support and incentivise providers to embrace climate, environment and social value. 
  • Ensure all services in Adult Social Care incorporate Climate, Environment and Social Value

Where we want to get to:

  • Ensure providers understand the importance of climate, environment and social value.
  • The full impact of Climate, Environment and Social Value is factored into Adult Social Care Services and future commissioning intentions.
  • Reduce travel across our services through our commissioning intentions, contracts/frameworks, use of community based support and/or the use of technology.
  • Help residential providers to improve their quality of their buildings/grounds and maximise the opportunity to be carbon neutral.
Last updated: 08/12/2022