Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012

But what they didn't do, not one of them did an environmental impact analysis, which is a breach of the law.

Large capital projects, 2012 Social Value Act, they must carry out an environmental impact analysis, and they didn't do that.

They also breached the 2012 Social Care Act, which says you should be protected from ionizing and non-ionizing radiation.

So what they did, they'd increased this optical radiation hazard by three to four times.

You're not seeing butterflies, uh, ladybirds, all being totally decimated by this technological deployment which they haven't carried out any environmental impact analysis.

That's the concern, so they've breached the law.

The 2012 Social Value Act, you have to...

Large capital projects, it is the law that they have to involve the public.

So it's giving contracts to those.

But it's using the powers in things like the 2012 Social Value Act, the 2023 Procurement Act that says, "If you want a contract from us, you've gotta have good workplace standards.

You've gotta have good environmental standards."

Right.

Secondly, and the new administration has made a virtue of this already, government can use much more actively and expansively the use of its own public purse through procurement policy.

And in particular, the provisions of the Social Value Act, which give government license to do things of a much more ambitious and expansive nature when it comes to meeting social objectives generally, and when it comes to bringing in charities to help meet their social objectives.

So I think there, even without spending a penny more, Changing the focus of decision-making and using existing monies in a more socially purposed fashion offers real hope to the charitable sector in future.

I couldn't agree with that more.

I mean, I think there's some really fantastic bits in this, in this report, um, related to that supply chain bit, which I think is not, not kind of t- spoken about enough.

Um, well, one thing I was gonna add in my previous comments was around the kind of Social Value Act.

Now I think there's, there were some changes that were made to that.

I'm not sure how familiar everyone is with that, but it's, it's effectively when, when these kind of bigger tenders go out for things like offshore wind, um, there's kind of provisions within, within that as part of the kind of contract, uh, kind of assessment that often kind of mention kind of jobs, for example, and kind of other things around, uh, social value and apprenticeships as part of those.