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Angela Halliday

Sodexo: A collaborative approach to a Social Value Economy

Through its work encouraging businesses to consider recruiting, upskilling and training ex-offenders, Sodexo is in a strong position to demonstrate what Social Value really looks like at ground level. Social Impact Director Angela Halliday delivers us some insights on this topic.

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2023 marked ten years since the Public Services (Social Value) Act came into force, and while the early part of the decade since its launch was slow and somewhat protracted, markets and government are now more focused than ever before on ensuring that we hold each other accountable when truly leading with purpose.

The 2023 National Social Value Conference took place with a clearer-than-ever-before focus on creating a Social Value Economy. The National Social Value Taskforce’s whitepaper provides a clear roadmap and narrative in support of how we journey towards a Social Value Economy, recognising that we still have some way to go.

Sodexo has aimed to create social, economic and environmental benefits through our services across the world since our inception in the 1960s. More recently in the UK & Ireland, we went one step further by publishing a series of pledges to tackle the societal and environmental challenges our country faces. These pledges focus our energies on making decisions that benefit not only our clients and our own business, but society as a whole.

At the conference, we heard from a wide range of stakeholders, game-changers and policy influencers on how we can create a better society, and we are proud to be one of those voices, sharing our experience, the progress we’ve made and the challenges we’ve faced.

We know we have a role to play in informing and influencing others. One recent example of where we are doing this is through our recently-launched Starting Fresh campaign, which encourages businesses big and small to consider proactively recruiting ex-offenders to vacant roles in their organisations by, for example, holding a recruitment day inside a prison.

Offenders who have spent time in prison often undertake new qualifications, skills and training, and leave prison job-ready and eager to find employment. Giving these individuals a chance so that they can bring their skills into the workplace is good for the economy, and the positive social impact for the individuals, their families, and communities, cannot be under-estimated.

So why would we not all get involved in giving people another chance in life? It all comes down to shifting hearts and minds. In the spirit of driving a Social Value economy, this is exactly what we need to be doing.

We must reach the hearts of business, bringing to life their purpose, their values and ambitions. Sharing best practice, developing frameworks to support businesses in living their values will be key to influencing the thinking, behaviours and mindsets of all.

We cannot tackle this alone. It takes collaboration, transparency and a degree of humility for businesses to come together as a force for good. Only together we will create change systemically. Our goal must be to fully embed purpose into our business and policy decisions. We must look much further into the future if we are to develop ways of doing business that are transformative for our communities, our people, and our planet.

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About Social Value Portal

Since 2017 Social Value Portal has been at the forefront of the Social Value movement. As creators of the endorsed Social Value TOM SystemTM, hosts of the annual Social Value Conference and founding members of the independent National Social Value Taskforce – they set industry standards and lead the business agenda.

Their unique mix of consultancy, cloud platform and programmes offer organisations the complete solution to accurately measure, manage and report Social Value – and create lasting impact.

In 2022, SVP achieved B Corp status, scoring above average in all assessed. The company’s aim is to promote better business and community wellbeing through the integration of Social Value into day-to-day business activity across all sectors.

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