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Guides and further reading

Social Finance publications

Technical Guide to Commissioning Social Impact Bonds
Ben Jupp
November 2011

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...

A Technical Guide to Developing a Social Impact Bond: Criminal Justice
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...

A Technical Guide to Developing a Social Impact Bond: Vulnerable Children and Young People
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...

A Technical Guide to Developing Social Impact Bonds
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...

Overview of the Peterborough Social Impact Bond
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...

Social Finance response to Ministry of Justice Green Paper "Breaking the Cycle: Effective Punishment, Rehabilitation and Sentencing"
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

Promoting the quality of life of looked after children and young people
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...

Unit costs
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...

Managing offenders on short sentences
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...

Reducing Re-offending by Ex-prisoners
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 Fact File July 2010
Prison Reform Trust

Report compiling statistical data and trend analysis on the state of the prison system and its population in the UK.

Reducing unplanned hospital admissions
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.

Tackling Problem Drug Use
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.

The Patel Report - Prison Drug Treatment Strategy Review
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 2010 Drug Strategy
UK Government

The UK government’s approach to tackling problem drug use.

Whole Person Recovery: A user-centred systems approach to 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....

Criminal Justice

Promoting the quality of life of looked after children and young people
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...

Unit costs
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...

Managing offenders on short sentences
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...

Reducing Re-offending by Ex-prisoners
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 Fact File July 2010
Prison Reform Trust

Report compiling statistical data and trend analysis on the state of the prison system and its population in the UK.

Reducing unplanned hospital admissions
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.

Tackling Problem Drug Use
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.

The Patel Report - Prison Drug Treatment Strategy Review
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 2010 Drug Strategy
UK Government

The UK government’s approach to tackling problem drug use.

Whole Person Recovery: A user-centred systems approach to 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....

Children in Care

Promoting the quality of life of looked after children and young people
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...

Unit costs
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...

Managing offenders on short sentences
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...

Reducing Re-offending by Ex-prisoners
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 Fact File July 2010
Prison Reform Trust

Report compiling statistical data and trend analysis on the state of the prison system and its population in the UK.

Reducing unplanned hospital admissions
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.

Tackling Problem Drug Use
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.

The Patel Report - Prison Drug Treatment Strategy Review
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 2010 Drug Strategy
UK Government

The UK government’s approach to tackling problem drug use.

Whole Person Recovery: A user-centred systems approach to 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....

Drugs

Promoting the quality of life of looked after children and young people
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...

Unit costs
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...

Managing offenders on short sentences
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...

Reducing Re-offending by Ex-prisoners
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 Fact File July 2010
Prison Reform Trust

Report compiling statistical data and trend analysis on the state of the prison system and its population in the UK.

Reducing unplanned hospital admissions
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.

Tackling Problem Drug Use
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.

The Patel Report - Prison Drug Treatment Strategy Review
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 2010 Drug Strategy
UK Government

The UK government’s approach to tackling problem drug use.

Whole Person Recovery: A user-centred systems approach to 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....

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