Bliss Care and Training Ltd

Reporting period: January 2025 to December 2025

Purpose: to record the company’s present carbon footprint, the measures already adopted, the controls that will apply when carrying out a Care Contract, and the pathway that supports the company’s commitment to Net Zero by 2050.

Bliss Care and Training Ltd is committed to achieving Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Context for the plan

Bliss Care and Training Ltd combines community care delivery with a strong emphasis on workforce development. That operating model shapes the carbon profile. The most significant source remains travel associated with care and supervisory activity, but there is also a meaningful relationship between carbon performance and the way the company trains, equips and organises its workforce. For that reason this plan places equal weight on operating discipline and staff capability. It is not enough to set a target; the company also has to ensure that routine behaviors support the target.

The plan has been prepared for procurement use. It is intended to look beyond a single emissions total and explain the internal levers that can be changed over time. Those levers include scheduling practice, procurement standards, digital systems, staff awareness and management review.
Plan feature Approach taken Net Zero commitment
2050 Reporting year

January 2025 to December 2025 Comparative baseline

January 2024 to December 2024 Reporting boundary

Operational control Methodological basis

GHG Protocol and UK Government conversion factors

Carbon Reduction Plan | Reporting year 2025

Accounting basis and organisational boundary

The inventory has been prepared using the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard and the UK Government Greenhouse Gas Conversion Factors for Company Reporting. The organisational boundary follows an operational control approach. Direct fuel and utility use are included in Scope 1 and Scope 2 respectively. Scope 3 includes the indirect categories that are most relevant to the company’s activity, namely business travel, employee commuting, purchased goods and services, waste generated in operations, upstream transport, home working and fuel and energy related activity not already reported elsewhere.

The company has used source data wherever possible. Travel records, utility invoices, purchase information and operational logs have been reviewed, then translated to emissions using the relevant factor. Where information is incomplete, a conservative estimate has been used so that the reported footprint is not understated. Data stream Comment on quality Mileage and travel records
Good quality and material to the total footprint Electricity and gas records
Adequate for annual reporting Purchased goods and services
Reasonable estimate based on purchase categories Waste and upstream transport
Lower value categories; conservative estimates retained Home working
Included using standardised assumptions
Carbon Reduction Plan | Reporting year 2025
Baseline and current emissions Scope Baseline year 2024 Current year 2025 Scope 1
8.1 tCO2e
7.3 tCO2e Scope 2
9.4 tCO2e
8.9 tCO2e Scope 3
79.3 tCO2e
74.2 tCO2e Total reported emissions
96.8 tCO2e
90.4 tCO2e
Figure 1. Share of the current footprint by scope.
Scope 3 makes up the overwhelming majority of the footprint. This is typical of a care provider but it matters for how the reduction programme is designed. If the company is to keep reducing emissions, it has to pay attention not only to fuel and electricity but to route design, training patterns, procurement choices and the way supplies are consumed. Scope 3 category Current emissions Business travel
46.7 tCO2e Employee commuting
10.5 tCO2e Purchased goods and services
9.8 tCO2e Upstream transport and distribution
2.5 tCO2e Fuel and energy related activity
1.8 tCO2e Home working
1.5 tCO2e Waste generated in operations
1.4 tCO2e

Carbon Reduction Plan | Reporting year 2025

Reduction levers already in use

Bliss has already taken practical steps that support lower emissions. Travel is reviewed through rota management. Training content is increasingly delivered through digital or blended methods where this supports quality and reduces unnecessary travel. Procurement is reviewed to reduce single use dependence and to avoid fragmented ordering. Electronic workforce systems reduce printing and duplicate handling of documents. None of these actions is presented as a complete solution on its own, but together they explain the movement seen between the baseline and the current year. Reduction lever How it operates in practice Travel control
Review of route design and management of avoidable mileage Training model
Use of digital or blended delivery where appropriate Digital systems
Reduction in paper forms and duplicate document handling Procurement approach
Challenge of avoidable single use purchasing and fragmented supply orders Operational review
Regular management discussion of material emission drivers
Carbon Reduction Plan | Reporting year 2025
Measures that will apply to a Care Contract

When performing a Care Contract, Bliss will apply environmental management measures that are realistic for community care services. Travel will be managed by sequencing work to minimise unnecessary movement. Digital records will remain the default form of operational documentation. Supplies will be ordered in a planned manner to avoid waste and repeated small deliveries. Staff will receive brief environmental guidance that links carbon reduction to daily practice, particularly around travel, equipment use and printed materials. Where contract related training is required, the delivery method will be chosen with both quality and travel impact in mind. Contract activity Control measure Expected outcome Care visit scheduling
Local route sequencing and challenge of excess travel
Lower transport emissions Documentation
Digital first records and limited printing
Lower paper and toner use Training and briefings
Blended delivery where appropriate
Lower travel linked to learning activity Supplies and consumables
Planned ordering and lower waste choices
Reduced materials impact Management review
Periodic check on material carbon drivers
Ongoing improvement
Carbon Reduction Plan | Reporting year 2025

Pathway to Net Zero

The pathway to 2050 has been framed as a managed transition rather than a one year challenge. Over the short term the emphasis is on travel efficiency and data quality. Over the medium term the emphasis shifts towards lower emission travel, cleaner procurement choices and further reductions in paper dependence. Over the longer term the company expects to deal with the remaining footprint through continued operational improvement and by addressing the residual emissions that cannot reasonably be removed earlier. Date horizon Objective End of 2027
Reduce total reported emissions to no more than 85.0 tCO2e End of 2030
Reduce total reported emissions by at least 30% against the 2025 level End of 2035
Continue reduction through lower emission travel and strengthened supplier standards End of 2040
Maintain a clear downward pathway with a focus on residual sources 2050
Achieve Net Zero
Annual refreshes will test whether the stated pathway remains proportionate and whether any source category has grown in materiality. If the operating model changes materially, the target pathway will be recalibrated to stay credible.

Carbon Reduction Plan | Reporting year 2025

Approval

Accountability for this plan sits with senior management and will be reviewed formally each year. The review will confirm the accuracy of the inventory, assess progress against the previous year, and examine whether the listed contract measures are being applied in practice. This plan records the company’s commitment to Net Zero by 2050 and the environmental management measures that will be applied when performing a Care Contract. Declaration: Bliss Care and Training Ltd has prepared this plan using recognised methodology and reasonable operational estimates. The company will keep the plan under annual review and update it as data quality and reduction measures develop.

Amina Jama

Director

January 2026