Sustainability

We aim to do business without negatively impacting the environment, community, or society.

We work across blue light organisations and with suppliers to ensure procurement and commissioning activities support sustainability and maximise the environmental, social and economic impact across the communities we serve, helping to deliver a sustainable and responsible future.

Social Value

We have embedded social value best practice tools and techniques within our commercial processes and help forces and suppliers demonstrate and measure the positive societal contributions they are creating for their communities through a number of toolkits.

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Journey to Net Zero

We continue to support the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) and Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC), National Sustainability Programme. The programme is focussed on delivering a unified strategy and developing a consistent force-wide approach to sustainability and working towards carbon net zero.

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Responsible Procurement & Commissioning

We ensure all procurement activity is undertaken in line with The Public Contract Regulations 2015 in an open, transparent, non-discriminatory and proportionate manner and an appropriate balance between quality and cost when evaluating suppliers’ bids. We have developed a Responsible Procurement & Commissioning Strategy that is available to all blue light members.

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Additional guidance and resources for blue light services

Training Courses

To increase staff capability and awareness our Learning Management System (LMS) has the following online courses:

Introduction to Social Value

The concept of social value has come to fore over recent years driven by the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012. However, the roots of social value have a long history in both the private and public sector and the relationship with the emergence of sustainability is worth exploring to gain a full understanding of its importance.
Introduction to Carbon Management

The UK has pledged to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions to net zero by 2050. Net zero means a country takes as much of these climate-changing gases out of the atmosphere as it puts in. This commitment has significant implications for UK business and procurement professionals. This introductory course will help clarify what this might mean.
Introduction to Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals have grown in importance and are increasingly used by organisations to demonstrate their commitment to social value and sustainability. This course will help you familiarise yourself with the language, the intent and how they are being used.