How to Evidence Social Value in Social Care Tenders
🌍 How to Evidence Social Value in Social Care Tenders
🔍 Why Social Value Matters
Social value is now a key consideration in public sector tenders, including social care. Commissioners want to see how your organisation delivers benefits beyond the core service — supporting communities, creating opportunities, and adding wider social impact.
Strong social value responses demonstrate your commitment to local employment, inclusion, sustainability, and working with voluntary and community partners.
📋 What Social Value Can Include
- Employment opportunities for local people, carers, and underrepresented groups
- Apprenticeships, training, and upskilling within the care workforce
- Supporting staff wellbeing and retention
- Partnerships with voluntary, community, and faith organisations (VCSE)
- Promoting inclusion, accessibility, and reducing inequalities
- Environmental sustainability commitments
- Involving people with lived experience in service design
Your examples should be practical, measurable, and proportionate to your service size and contract value.
💡 Top Tips for Strong Responses
- Reference the Social Value Act and commissioner frameworks
- Focus on measurable outcomes, not vague promises
- Align your answer to the tender question and specification
- Provide examples from practice wherever possible
🔑 Final Thought
Commissioners increasingly expect providers to deliver and evidence social value. A strong, clear method statement can give you a competitive edge in social care tenders.
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Updated for Procurement Act 2023 • CQC-aligned • BASE-aligned (where relevant)