Here you can find over 150 posts tracking every major development in payment by results since 2011. You can see where PbR has succeeded and, more frequently, where it has failed across a wide range of sectors: offending, welfare, employment, substance misuse… If you’re looking for something in particular, try the search box below.
Some things in life are complicated. Take, for example, deciding the causes of the August riots. The government, Metropolitan Police and the Guardian/LSE are just
Most voluntary sector projects publish an annual report. Not many are greeted with the level of interest which met yesterday’s publication of the first report
The last 20 years have seen an increased focus on the importance of modernising public services. It was a strong characteristic of the Blair years,
Since this post was written, Cavendish has added a further 3 stage wins in the 2012 Tour De France. On 28 July, he races in
Sometimes one person stands up against a revolution. Thirty years ago, on 23 February 1981, 200 armed officers of the Civil Guard burst into the
Given the current state of the economy and scale of the deficit, it is clear that there is likely to be a continued high level of interest in Private Finance Initiatives which is essentially what Social Impact Bonds are. At one level, those of us trying to tackle entrenched social problems like drug-related offending are not too concerned with the source of funding, we just want someone to ‘show me the money’.
‘Payment by results’ is an approach to funding public services which mirrors how we pay for a meal in a restaurant. We typically give a
Last week I posted apoll to try to gauge attitudes to payment by results by those sufficiently interested in the subject to read this Blog. For
There are a lot of criticisms that can be levied at the payment by results approach. Some commentators are opposed in principle, Laurence Demarco, the
Commissioning by outcomes is always right, public money should be focused on what we want to achieve – people in work, off drugs, no longer
The 1972 Munich Olympics launched Olga Korbut on the world stage. Half of Britain fell in love with the diminutive gymnast with the gamine looks
