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Social Value

Social Value Working Group (SVWG)

The SVWG brings together people from MHA+ member authorities and suppliers who have significant expertise in social value. The group provides a forum for the sharing of best practice and help MHA+ members deliver social value benefits effectively.

Working together, the group makes the most of the opportunities and resources available through highway services. This benefits MHA+ member authorities and the local and regional communities they serve.

Find out when the Social Value Working Group meets for upcoming sessions.

New Social Value Framework

The SVWG has produced new guidance to help the MHA+ community understand and use our Social Value Framework. This applies across procurement, commissioning, service improvement groups and the delivery of our contracting and consulting frameworks.

Thanks to Taylor Woodrow, Galliford Try and Aecom for their contributions to this guidance.

This guidance is intended to support the MHA+ community to understand and embed the MHA+ new Social Value Framework. It covers how to plan, deliver and report social value across contracts of all sizes.

Read the new Social Value Framework guidance document.

Social Value and MHA+

Social value means improving economic, social and environmental wellbeing through public services. It’s built into every MHA+ framework, from procurement through to delivery.

Our suppliers work with us to create social value benefits, tailored to local communities, while delivering their contracts efficiently.

Since the start of our Medium Schemes Framework (MSF1), now in its fourth version (MSF4), we’ve tracked employment and skills outcomes through Employment and Skills Plans (ESPs).

The results speak for themselves: suppliers achieved 817 ESP benchmarks across 23 schemes – double what we planned. See the graphic below for a full breakdown of ESP achievements across all three previous frameworks.