Social Impact Bonds are a form of financing that aligns investor returns with social outcomes: investors only receive a return if the social outcome is achieved.
Since Social Finance launched the first Social Impact Bond in September 2010...
Guides and further reading
Social Finance publications
Emily Bolton and Jenna Palumbo
March 2011
This guide aims to set out the steps that are required to assess the feasibility of a Social Impact Bond (SIB) idea. It starts with the identification of a social issue where a SIB might be applicable and examines each factor that must be...
Lisa Barclay and Diane Mak
March 2011
This guide aims to set out the steps that are required to assess the feasibility of a Social Impact Bond (SIB)
idea. It starts with the identification of a social issue where a SIB might be applicable and examines each factor that must be...
Social Finance
March 2011
This guide aims to set out the steps that are required to assess the feasibility of a Social Impact Bond (SIB) idea. It starts with the identification of a social issue where a SIB might be applicable and examines each factor that must be...
Emily Bolton and Jenna Palumbo
March 2011
Social Impact Bonds are designed to increase funding for preventative services that improve social outcomes. The first Social Impact Bond funds the One* Service working with short-sentence prisoners discharged from HMP Peterborough over the next...
Emily Bolton
March 2011
In December 2010, the Ministry of Justice published a Green Paper “Breaking the cycle: effective punishment, rehabilitation and sentencing of offenders”. Social Finance submitted a response.
Healthcare
The King's Fund in collaboration with various partners
This publication is an analysis of the five key themes that the health and social care system must embrace to be sustainable and to ensure quality.
Personal Social Services Research Unit
Compendium of Health Statistics for the UK in 2009.
Chris Ham, University of Birmingham
This review aims to identify initiatives that may reduce unscheduled hospital admissions and to suggest any gaps in current local strategies.
Criminal Justice
National Audit Office
Over 60,000 adults per year receive custodial sentences of less than 12 months. On any given day they make up around 9 per cent of all prisoners but account for some 65 per cent of all sentenced admissions and releases. This report examines the...
Social Exclusion Unit
The Prime Minister asked the Social Exclusion Unit (SEU) to explore with other government departments how to cut rates of re-offending by ex-prisoners. The report sets out the scale of the problem; examines the causes and why the system doesn’t...
Prison Reform Trust
Report compiling statistical data and trend analysis on the state of the prison system and its population in the UK.
Children in Care
The Centre for Social Justice
This report provides a diagnosis of the problems being experienced by our nation’s children in care and those dedicated to their welfare. It puts forward a broad policy agenda with a series of recommendations to improve the lives of children in...
Washington State Institute for Public Policy
This report investigates three basic questions. Is there credible evidence that specific programs “work” to improve these outcomes? If so, do benefits outweigh program costs? Finally, what would be the total net gain t if these evidence-based...
Jennifer Beecham and Ian Sinclair
This report evaluates the way services are delivered, the costs of providing services and the extent to which they improve outcomes for children in contact with social care services.
Celia Hannon, Claudia Wood, Louise Bazalgette
This report considers what the care system would look like if it were reconfigured to avoid the delay, instability and abrupt transitions that many young people still experience. It goes on to show that this type of system could also be less...
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
This guidance aims to improve quality of life (that is, the physical health, and social, educational and emotional wellbeing) of looked-after children and young people. The focus is on ensuring that organisations, professionals and carers work...
Jennifer Beecham
If we are to discover whether we are getting the best value for money fromsocial services, we have to know their true cost. Expenditure needs to be connected directly to the needs of children and families, and the services they receive. The help...
Drugs
National Audit Office
Central government spend £1.2 billion a year tackling drug use, a problem that is estimated to cost society £15 billion a year. This report examines the progress made since the publication of the 2008 Drug Strategy.
Lord Patel of Bradford OBE
69% of those who enter prison are likely to have taken drugs within the previous 12 months. This report details the findings of the Prison Drug Treatment Strategy Review Group, set up to carry out a review of drug treatment and interventions in...
UK Government
The UK government’s approach to tackling problem drug use.
RSA (Rebecca Daddow and Steve Broome)
The RSA’s Whole Person Recovery Project aims to understand in a holistic way how problematic drug and alcohol users become trapped in cycles of addiction, what helps or hinders their journey to recovery, and how their recovery can be sustained....
Reitox National Focal Point
This report provides an overview of the major issues and challenges in the drug sector, including current treatment outcomes and the economic and social costs of drug usage.
