Essex County Council

Essex County Council and its suppliers are working together to achieve more for our residents with every pound we spend. To do this, ECC is harnessing its £1.2 billion p.a. of public spending to influence the *way* suppliers deliver our contracts. In less than 18 months, our innovative social value programme has achieved commitments from suppliers totalling £42m of social value, including: 18,000 hours of support for getting young people and unemployed people into work; 357 jobs for those not in education, training or employment; 276 jobs for the long term unemployed and 3742 weeks of apprenticeship training