Course description
This course will outline the principles of social value and help you to identify opportunities to maximise the social value benefits that your organisation can deliver. You will consider the key techniques and processes that can be deployed across the procurement cycle to maximise the delivery of social value benefits through effective procurement and supply chain management. The course will explore how to align social value with your organisation's core values and cultivate a culture of social value. It will also help you to develop suitable metrics and reporting mechanisms which will enable your organisation to demonstrate the positive impact of your social value interventions.
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Outcome / Qualification etc.
What will I learn?
As part of this course, you will have access to pre and post-work activities online to help you prepare and reflect on your training. Considering Social Value during procurement activities has a huge potential to make a significant change to society and people’s lives. During this course, we will explore the impact that considering Social Value has and how it relates to your organisation. We will explore the principles, drivers and benefits of social value including stakeholder engagement and how it can lead to competitive advantage. We will look at ways to measure and report on both tangible and intangible benefits, costs and added value through developing strong society-based indicators.
What are the learning objectives?
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Define social value in the context of your organisation
- Describe the main drivers of social value
- Identify opportunities to maximise social value benefits from your procurement activity
- Develop appropriate strategies and plans to enable your organisation to deliver social value outcomes for stakeholders
- Report on your organisation’s social value activities
Training content
Session 1
Introduction to social value and public
services
- Social values
- Public services (Social Value Act 2012)
Session 2
Social value – Part 1
- Stakeholders and impact mapping in social value
Session 3
Social value – Part 2
- Measuring and reporting social value
Session 4
Social value – Part 3
- Social value and the United Nations sustainable development goals
Course delivery details
- Your skills training will comprise of online learning and a tutor-led session.
- Online pre-learning and course materials will be available on the CIPS Learning Mangement System up-to one month ahead of your training session and should be completed before day 1 and day 2.
- The virtual classroom will open 15 minutes before your session.
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Reviews
Average rating 4
Really informative session with good examples how to apply Social Value principles and techniques within procurement process and procedures. The case study in particular was an ...
Our Moderator did a great job delivering the course and it's a great introduction but on reflection I believe this course should be reduced to multiple smaller modules and had e...
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