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New report from Social Finance looks at the spread of social impact bonds across the globe and expects their development to become less complex.
Will SIBs become a mainstream way of funding public services? My take on new Social Market Foundation report. “Effective transfer of financial accountability is the holy grail of public service reform” The main mechanism for this has been payment by results with which Social Impact Bonds are closely associated. Social Impact Bonds and PbR appear to be a good fit:
Toby Eccles is the founder and Development Director at Social Finance. This post originally appeared on Toby’s personal website. You can follow Toby on Twitter @tobyecc
Ten things I learnt from the CBI Payment by Results Conference I thought readers might be interested in what I gleaned from the PbR event
Measuring recovery The biggest challenge of the drug recovery payment by results pilots has been agreeing a simple but robust measurement system to report on whether
Commissioning by outcomes is always right, public money should be focused on what we want to achieve – people in work, off drugs, no longer
