Building Safer Communities Together (BSCT) is a Thames Valley approach connecting business social value into building healthier, safer and more resilient communities.
BSCT is provided to Thames Valley as a communities-led solution, with public procurement used to harnesses millions in supplier social value commitments.
Police, councils, NHS, fire and criminal justice service combine their commissioning and procurement to regionally harness supplier social value; demonstrated through BSCT as underpinning programmes within the Thames Valley managed process of building safer communities.
BSCT is the impartial support and monitoring community of impact within Thames Valley; connected to the strategic objectives of the elected Police & Crime Commissioner and coordinated through the formal partnership structure of the Thames Valley Violence Reduction Unit (VRU).
BSCT was created with Thames Valley Police as a way for procurement to support how the Office of the Police & Crime Commissioner financially sustains (and grows) long-term violence prevention.
Targeting supplier contracted social value commitments into community safety.
Harnessing £10m in annual social value...
Supplier financial social value contributions now drive how Thames Valley builds safer communities with its charities & social enterprises.
The Pluggin Ecosystem is the facilitation & monitoring environment showing WHERE & HOW Thames Valley suppliers are making their social value contributions to a range of recognised programmes - with communities regionally validating this supplier social value in real-time.
The ecosystem automates how suppliers find, connect with and commit to programmes, with the Pluggin digital Social Purchase Order (SPO) process which automates, captures, consolidates and publishes supplier social value into public procurement, and wider into community audiences.
A year of development with key leaders saw BSCT launch in the Spring of 2023.
By December 2023, the Pluggin Ecosystem recorded £121,000 of business social value contributions going into Thames Valley charities & social enterprises.
Are you a business supplier?
For businesses serving/bidding for contracts within Thames Valley, access to our ecosystem is via annual Business Membership.