Concept
Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012
Overview
The Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 (c. 3) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. 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. It requires that all public bodies in England and Wales, including local authorities and NHS organisations, to consider how the services they commission and procure which are expected to cost more than the thresholds provided for in the Public Contracts Regulations might improve the social, economic and environmental well-being of the area. Third Sector organisations such as Social Enterprise UK pushed for the introduction of the legislation. In early drafts the bill had a far greater focus on increasing public spending with social enterprises. The final text of the act is focused on ensuring public spending leverages value in all three recognized domains or pillars of sustainable development, or the triple bottom line.
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Hence it is, that the _judicial offices and courts of justice_, established within the precincts of said jurisdictions, have, as they ought of right to have, all those jurisdictions and powers "as fully and amply to all intents and purposes whatsoever, as the courts of king's bench, common pleas, and exchequer, within his majesty's kingdom of England, have, and ought to have, and are empowered to give judgment and…
Benjamin Franklin, The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics and Morals of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 3 [of 3]
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As the price or exchangeable value of every particular commodity, taken separately, resolves itself into some one or other, or all of those three parts; so that of all the commodities which compose the whole annual produce of the labour of every country, taken complexly, must resolve itself into the same three parts, and be parcelled out among different inhabitants of the country, either as the wages of their…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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Such service in the form of some economically useful contribution, whether to the production and distribution of goods, to the public order, to education, to the satisfaction of aesthetic and religious wants, might be demanded as a matter of common honesty. This would be to treat it as a just claim made by society upon each of its members. There is, of course, no legal claim. The law is far from adopting as a…
John Dewey, Ethics
Close in meaning to Public Services Act 2012; the term itself is not named.
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Place in the tradition
Part of Value (ethics).
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