Community benefit clauses provide a means of achieving sustainability in public contracts. They include targeted recruitment and training, small business and social enterprise development and community engagement.
The Scottish Government has published:
Community Benefits in Public Procurement - Report
Community Benefits in Public Procurement - Guidance Note
Community Benefits - Leaflet
These provide:
A toolkit of appropriate clauses
There is now also a new guidance note called Monitoring Community Benefits in Procurement which:
Recognises the link to Standard Industrial Classifications and Standard Occupational Classifications used in employability work
Further community benefits case studies are being developed and will be available from the Scottish Government website.
"The first question that we should ask when developing any contract specification should be: 'Can we include a community benefit clause?"
John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth, March 2010
