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The Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. [1] The Act calls for all public sector commissioning to factor in ("have regard to") economic, social and environmental well-being in connection with public services contracts.
Pie chart of UK central government expenditure, 2009–10. Social Protection is shown in orange, health in red, education in grey, and personal services in light blue. The welfare state represents around two-thirds of total government spending. [needs update]
The United Kingdom Common Frameworks are a group of legislative and non- legislative policies that aim to create UK wide frameworks and ensure the security and integrity of the UK internal market. [1] Some of these policies will fall under devolved competence, and others it plans to reserve for central government. [citation needed]
The UK, in common with a number of other countries, began from the 1970s to reconsider hitherto settled local government models. Increasing economic uncertainty arising from 1970s oil shocks and stagflation, and concerns about an ageing population, were coupled with a populist Conservative agenda to shrink the size, cost, and activities of government. [5]
For example, UK public procurement legislation refers to "social value" in its requirement that public bodies commissioning public services take account of the social, environmental and economic well-being of the area where a contract will be delivered: see Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012.
A number of innovations in social welfare were carried by the Liberal Government during its time in office. The Housing of the Working Classes and Town Planning Act, as noted by one study, “liberalized still further the terms of housing loans, increasing the proportion of money needed which could be lent and the time for repayment.
(The Center Square) – An ongoing war in Syria has suddenly ended with the overturning of the long-standing Syrian government, creating national security and humanitarian concerns but also ...
The UK's Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 This page was last edited on 11 September 2024, at 01:27 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...