Businesses need to quantify the 'S' in ESG

How a business best demonstrates the social value it delivers is a question that is being debated everywhere from the meeting rooms of SMEs through to large corporates and government departments. And the debate has been a long time coming. While businesses are increasingly grasping what it means to achieve net zero and how they demonstrate their commitment to the ‘E' in ESG, I think it's fair to say that the business community has found it harder to understand, quantify and communicate the ‘S'. Since the passing of the Social Value Act a decade ago, social value has steadily entered t...