Draft Social Investment Strategy 2025-2030 Consultation

Overview

Consultation on our Draft Social Investment Strategy 2025-2030

Closing date: 16th May 2025

The consultation will run for 12 weeks, from 21^st February 2025 up to 16^th May 2025 and we want to hear from you.

With a clear focus on social enterprise, our draft strategy has been carefully created. Our strategic view of People, Place & Prosperity sets out how we envisage to deliver this in partnership with all our stakeholders.

Our strategic priorities are:

Community wealth building - This strategy will seek to utilise a variety of resources to support Community Wealth Building to achieve sustainable outcomes within our communities. It will focus on a number of key themes; Plural ownership, locally rooted finance, Fair employment, socially productive use of land and property and finally Progressive commissions, sourcing and procurement for goods and services.

Social Value - Our ambition is to ensure that the communities we represent are prepared and ready to avail of social value opportunities. We want to raise awareness and capacity in communities to avail of opportunities available as a result of wider Government spend and also that of the Housing Executive’s annual spend and the social benefits that accompany that.

Employability & Apprenticeships – We want to continue to invest in social enterprises where they require assistance for increased / new employability, training, reskilling and volunteering opportunities. We also want to maximise other learning and skills development opportunities by engaging with academic and accrediting bodies and interagency partnerships, gathering knowledge, information, and contacts for the benefit of individuals and our communities.

We want to listen to your views and give you the chance to help shape our strategy and services. 

You can access the draft strategy from the link below:

The Housing Executive - Social Enterprise Plus programme

Why your views matter

The Housing Executive welcomes any comments you wish to make on all of the proposals or just on those issues that are of particular interest to you in the consultation.

Freedom of Information Act 2000

Confidentiality of Consultations

The Housing Executive will publish a summary of responses following completion of the consultation process. Your response, and all other responses to the consultation, may be disclosed on request. The Housing Executive can only refuse to disclose information in exceptional circumstances. Before you submit your response, please read the paragraphs below on the confidentiality of consultations and they will give you guidance on the legal position about any information given by you in response to this consultation.

The Freedom of Information Act gives the public the public a right of access to any information held by a public authority, namely the Housing Executive in this case. This right of access to information includes information provided in response to a consultation. However, it does have the responsibility to decide whether any information provided by you in response to this consultation, including information about your identity should be made public or treated as confidential, although this will also be guided by Data Protection legislation.

The means that information provided by you in response to the consultation is unlikely to be treated as confidential, except in very particular circumstances. The Lord Chancellor’s Code of Practice on the Freedom of Information Act provides that:

• The Housing Executive should only accept information from third parties in confidence if it is necessary to obtain that information in connection with the exercise of any of the Housing Executive’s functions and it would not otherwise be provided.
• The Housing Executive should not agree to hold information received from third parties ‘in confidence’ which is not confidential in nature.
• Acceptance by the Housing Executive of confidentiality provisions must be for good reasons, capable of being justified to the Information Commissioner.

For further information about confidentiality of responses please contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (or see the website at: http://www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk/)