News & Opinion

The Cabinet Office has released detailed PPN 026 guidance. What buyers and suppliers need to know about scope, weightings, delivery plans, reporting metrics and evidence.

Historical reporting from 14 October 2026 on PPN 026 metrics and community programmes, with a 28 October update linking to the now-published detailed guidance.

Watch the 30 September webinar and explore the wider Social Value Engine tools for understanding place, capturing individual impact, working with partners and communicating results.

A nine-month pilot with Volleyball England will use My Impact to record volunteer activities and build evidence of the social value created across clubs, events and programmes.

The Treasury plans to reduce the Green Book discount rate and introduce economic potential analysis. We examine what this could mean for long-term social value and place-based investment.

Our 7 August 2026 analysis of the jobs and skills announcement, with a 28 October update linking buyers and suppliers to the published PPN 026 guidance.

Social value commitments are easy to make and hard to follow. SVE Connect is built for the stage after award, linking procurement teams and commissioners with their delivery partners so progress is visible, consistent and evidenced throughout the life of a contract or grant.

Social value data generated for procurement can support the finance, planning and reporting functions that determine how a housing association grows. This article explains how the same accredited evidence base connects sustainability-linked loans, planning obligations and ESG frameworks.

Output-counting, wellbeing valuation and SROI each carry different assumptions about how evidence is collected. We explain the differences and what to ask before committing to a platform.

Government guidance confirms that housing associations remain within scope of the Procurement Act 2023. We look at what the move to MAT, the public benefit duty and KPI publication mean for registered providers' procurement, finance and risk teams.

ICBs are being asked to commission more deliberately at the same time as they lose analytical capacity. We look at what the 2026 reorganisation means for how the NHS measures the value of what it buys.

April 2026 opens the shadow year for Surrey and a two-year preparation window for Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk. For VCSEs, the commissioning landscape is changing substantially, and the evidence base you need is changing with it.