Social Value Ideas for Cambridgeshire County Council
We have identified 50 evidence-based social value themes for Cambridgeshire County Council in East of England across 47 service areas. These insights are derived from the latest council meeting transcripts and can inform your social value strategy for bids and tenders.
Mill Road Library community sale
The committee approved the community bid for the former Mill Road Library, with completion by 2027-02-15. The group is said to have improved its bid, evidence of private funding, and the report says t…
“Committee will be aware of the history of this site and of the two previous marketing exercises to dispose of this site. Both of which obtained commit…”
Journey Campus lease extension
The committee approved a 250-year lease extension at Journey Campus, enabling a substantial capital receipt split between the county and city councils. Officers said the freehold is held only as a rev…
“Journey campus is a commercial business park comprising nine separate buildings with a variety of uses from office space, purpose-built labs, newly bu…”
Access and fairness workload pressure
The fund faces a significant operational pressure from survivor benefit and death grant equalisation work, plus McCloud rectification, with manual intervention needed and an intense workload from July…
“So for us and in fact every other um fund, the equalization of survivor benefits and death grants will be the greatest area of challenge within those …”
Staff retention and leadership capacity
The administration report and discussion highlighted continuing recruitment and retention difficulties, including loss of experienced staff, the need to parachute in support, and concerns about leader…
“My concern is is there enough senior leadership capacity to make sure the juggling continues and you deliver on those objectives whilst we still manag…”
LHI contribution limit raised
The committee approved increasing the county council's maximum contribution to non-complex LHI schemes from £10,000 to £15,000. It also agreed that the cross-party member working group should reconven…
“The report also includes a proposed change to the program increasing the maximum county council contribution for non-complex schemes from £10,000 to £…”
£820k local highways programme
The committee approved the prioritised 2026/27 Local Highways Improvement programme, comprising 79 community-led projects: 15 complex and 64 non-complex. The schemes will progress through detailed des…
“This year's program has again attracted a significant level of interest from communities across Cambridge here. A total of 168 applications were recei…”
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