Carbon Reduction Plan

YOUR DIGNIFIED CARE LTD

Carbon Reduction Plan

2026 to 2027

Board-level policy, operational procedure and procurement assurance document aligned with UK public-sector carbon reporting expectations, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and UK Government conversion factors.

Contents

1. Document Control and Approval

This Carbon Reduction Plan (CRP) is prepared as a controlled policy and operating document for YOUR DIGNIFIED CARE LTD. It supports local authority and public-sector tender assurance and provides a practical framework for measuring, reviewing and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

2. Executive Statement

YOUR DIGNIFIED CARE LTD is an active UK social-care organisation providing homecare and community-based personal support. Its service model includes regulated homecare, personal care, live-in care and respite care delivered in people’s own homes. The organisation has 20 care workers and 2 management staff, and use Roundsys for care management.

The company recognises that carbon reduction is a governance, procurement, affordability and service-continuity issue. YOUR DIGNIFIED CARE’s most material emissions are expected to arise from staff and business travel, employee commuting, purchased electricity, procurement of goods and services, and operational waste. This Plan sets out how those impacts will be measured and reduced without compromising safeguarding, responsiveness, continuity, dignity or assessed support needs.

Commissioner-facing summary

This CRP links senior accountability to practical controls: local recruitment, route planning, mileage monitoring, digital-first administration, energy efficiency, waste reduction, supplier engagement and annual data-quality improvement. Carbon actions will never override safe service delivery. Where travel is necessary to protect people, respond to risk or maintain continuity, it will proceed and be recorded accurately.

3. Organisation Profile and Carbon Boundary

Carbon reporting boundary

The reporting boundary covers YOUR DIGNIFIED CARE LTD UK operations. It includes office and administrative activity, staff travel required to deliver services, business travel, employee commuting, purchased electricity, operational waste, water where material, and the required subset of Scope 3 categories used in public-sector Carbon Reduction Plans.

Operational exclusions and limitations

No company-owned fleet or on-site fuel use has been observed; this will be confirmed annually.

The provisional baseline excludes unverified claims and is not presented as a measured footprint.

Any new contract, office, vehicle, subcontractor or material service change will trigger a boundary review.

4. Emissions Methodology

YOUR DIGNIFIED CARE LTD will calculate emissions in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) using the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard and the latest UK Government greenhouse gas conversion factors applicable to the reporting year. Scope 1, Scope 2 and the relevant Scope 3 categories will be reported separately. The plan is structured with reference to UK public procurement Carbon Reduction Plan guidance (PPN 006, succeeding PPN 06/21), including the five specified Scope 3 categories.

Required Scope 3 subset

Upstream transportation and distribution

Waste generated in operations

Business travel

Employee commuting

Downstream transportation and distribution

5. Initial 2026/27 Emissions Estimate

The 2026/27 period is used for the initial carbon-accounting planning assessment.

Baseline and current reporting year summary

Initial reporting period: 2026/27. The same initial planning estimate is used for the baseline and current reporting position; it is not presented as a completed annual inventory.

Scope 1: 0.00 tCO2e | Scope 2: 0.52 tCO2e | Scope 3: 8.59 tCO2e | Total: 9.11 tCO2e.

Scope 3 category summary (initial estimates)

Category 4 – Upstream transportation and distribution: 0.15 tCO2e; Category 5 – Waste generated in operations: 0.10 tCO2e; Category 6 – Business travel: 5.93 tCO2e; Category 7 – Employee commuting: 2.38 tCO2e; Category 9 – Downstream transportation and distribution: 0.03 tCO2e. Total Scope 3: 8.59 tCO2e.

Additional relevant category – Purchased goods and services: PPE, uniforms, care consumables and office supplies are recognised as potential emissions sources. No separate quantified value is included in the 9.11 tCO2e total; expenditure/activity data will be assessed at the annual update to avoid unsupported figures or double counting.

Data quality: the travel, commuting, electricity and waste figures are estimated from planning assumptions. The 22-person workforce figure is the organisation-reported headcount, not a measured commuting survey. Annual comparisons will begin once the first completed reporting-year inventory is established.

Baseline interpretation

The initial estimate indicates that staff and business travel is likely to be YOUR DIGNIFIED CARE’s dominant emissions source, followed by employee commuting and purchased electricity. This is typical of mobile community-based support models. The reduction plan therefore prioritises local recruitment, geographically sensible caseload allocation, route efficiency, digital working, travel surveys and supplier controls.

6. Emissions Reduction Targets

YOUR DIGNIFIED CARE will use the validated 2026/27 footprint as its baseline and restate the trajectory if actual activity data differs materially from the initial estimate. Targets are designed to be stretching but realistic for a small, mobile social-care provider.

7. Carbon Reduction Projects and Controls

7.1 Measures already adopted or committed

7.2 2026/27 action plan

8. Carbon Management Procedure

The following procedure converts this CRP into an operational control and will be embedded within YOUR DIGNIFIED CARE's governance calendar and tender assurance arrangements.

Procedure controls

The CRP and its supporting workbook will be controlled documents. Underlying evidence will be retained for at least the same period as the associated tender and contract records, so that commissioners can request evidence supporting emissions claims, progress updates and completed actions.

9. Governance, Accountability and Reporting

Reporting dashboard

10. Commissioner Assurance

This CRP is designed to give public-sector commissioners clear assurance that YOUR DIGNIFIED CARE's carbon approach is proportionate, measurable, governed and connected to safe service delivery.

11. Risk Register

12. Carbon Offsetting Position

YOUR DIGNIFIED CARE LTD will not rely on carbon offsets as the primary route to meeting near-term targets. The priority is to reduce avoidable emissions from travel, energy, procurement, waste and administration. If residual emissions remain on the route to Net Zero, YOUR DIGNIFIED CARE will only consider high-integrity, independently verified UK-relevant removals or offsets after direct reduction options have been exhausted and affordability, credibility and procurement acceptability have been reviewed.

13. Declaration and Sign-Off

This Carbon Reduction Plan has been prepared in accordance with the structure and intent of public-sector Carbon Reduction Plan reporting expectations. Emissions are expressed in tCO2e. Scope 1, Scope 2 and the required subset of Scope 3 categories are included. Estimated emissions are disclosed as estimates, with the underlying assumptions and a programme for collecting actual data.

Appendix A - Assumptions and Evidence Register