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UK SRS is voluntary. So why are companies preparing social data now?
The UK Sustainability Reporting Standards were published in February 2026 and remain voluntary for...
Five Errors That Could Be Hiding in Your Social Value Data Right Now
Estimated reading time: 13 minutes Under the Procurement Act 2023, social value data is now...
PPN 026: What the Board Needs to Know
From 1 January 2027, a new Social Value Model decides up to a fifth of your score on central...
PPN 026 vs PPN 002: What the Guidance Must Answer
PPN 026 will soon replace PPN 002 as the Social Value Model for central government, and it changes...
The New Social Value Model: What PPN 026 Changes and When
On 5 August 2026 the Cabinet Office published Procurement Policy Note 026, a new Social Value...
Social Impact and Real Asset Returns: What the Board Needs to Know
Real assets firms are under growing pressure to demonstrate the social impact of their...
From Weighting to Worth: Why Social Value Is Won or Lost After the Contract Is Awarded
Estimated reading time: 11 minutes Social value is now firmly established in public procurement,...
Beyond the Bid: Moving Social Value into Live Contract Management
Estimated reading time: 14 minutes For years, social value has been treated largely as a bid-stage...
The Risk That’s Already Here: How Bad Social Value Data Costs You Today
Estimated reading time: 11 minutes If a client, an auditor, or your own board challenged one of...
Social Impact Is Where Environmental Data Was Ten Years Ago. That’s Good News
Social impact is beginning to experience the same transition environmental reporting went through...
Can You Defend Your Social Value Data? What Our Validation Webinar Revealed
Estimated reading time: 17 minutes Social value reporting has matured fast, but the data...
Thrive appoints leading Social Value Economist Dr Daniel Fujiwara as Head of Economics
Thrive has appointed Dr Daniel Fujiwara as Head of Economics. A co-author of HM Treasury’s Green...
From GDP to General Wellbeing: What the Wellbeing Economy Means for Real Estate
Real estate and infrastructure investment is judged largely on financial returns, with social and...
Delivering Joined-Up Impact Across the Asset Lifecycle at UKREiiF
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes Real estate social impact measurement is usually broken into...
Social Impact ROI for Real Assets: Why the Numbers Matter
Estimated reading time: 17 minutes Key Takeaways Social impact is becoming a measurable factor in...
Thrive launches UK’s first real-time social value data validation
The April 2026 release introduces Thrive Validation - the UK market’s first system-enforced,...
The Contract Management Playbook Is Here: What Social Value Teams Need to Know
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes The UK Government has spent the past two years building the...
What the “Growing British Industry, Jobs and Skills” Consultation Response Changes for Social Value
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes The government’s response to the “Public Procurement: Growing...
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