The introductory guide to social outcomes contracting in the EU provides practical advice for policymakers and practitioners interested in the adoption of outcomes-based approaches, and examples from emergent practice across Europe.
This Government Outcomes Lab publication summarises the key findings of a report into seven children’s social care projects commissioned through social impact bonds (SIBs), with top-up outcomes funding provided by DCMS.
This report reflects on the learnings and experiences of the March 2021 INDIGO Hack and Learn event. Participants, challenge leaders and co-host representatives each provide a valuable perspective to offer on the strengths and weaknesses of the sessions.
Read the POGO Club's response to the UK Government's Green Paper on Transforming Public Procurement. It addresses four broad themes for procurement reform: culture, outcomes, transparency, and learning.
We have a range of guidance to support you develop impact bonds, from setting and measuring outcomes, to awarding the contract and pricing outcomes.
This report explores the work Big Issue Invest (BII) and GO Lab did together to make the data from BII’s Outcomes Investment Fund shareable. In doing this work, we identified practical challenges in sharing data and offered some potential solutions.
The International Network for Data on Impact and Government Outcomes (INDIGO) is an emerging data collaborative aiming at better data for better social outcomes. Data analysts, researchers or stakeholders can use this spreadsheet to share data.
Read the Government Outcomes Lab's interim report on the Kirklees Integrated Support Service Social Impact Bond, which outlines four hypothesised features of social impact bonds that are expected to improve service delivery.
Read Government Outcomes Lab's response to the British Standards Institution's initiative to codify social value.
New to outcomes-based contracting and social impact bonds? Discover the basics about these innovative approaches to the provision of public services.
This is the the 2020 Data Dictionary for our INDIGO Impact Bond Dataset. It contains all the variables and data definitions that you need to fully understand these data.
In this policy memo, we provide 7 recommendations which show how the £2 billion Kickstart scheme for young people can be implemented in a way that will enhance effective local partnerships, substantial private sector involvement and targeting of support.
The Life Chances Fund (LCF) was launched as an £80 million fund by the UK Government to help people in society who face significant barriers to leading happy and productive lives. Read Government Outcomes Lab's evaluation strategy for LCF.
In this paper, we supply a framework for assessing the quality of outcomes specifications and clarify the trade-off between a robust value case for government and the transaction costs associated with specifying such a deal.
Explore our in-depth collection of case studies on impact bonds and other outcomes-based approaches around the world.
This functional guidance is created for Life Chances Fund projects to support them to upload their information to the DCMS platform.
This report by the GO Lab looks at how local authorities are joining forces with their local communities to overcome complex social problems., exploring 10 cases across the UK to understand why and how authorities are choosing to collaborate.
We put together a briefing that shares our early findings from the "Rallying Together" paper, which looks at how local authorities are joining forces with their local communities to overcome complex social problems.
Want to know more about the state of play of impact bonds? Explore our global interactive map to find out data on impact bonds in their various stages of development and policy areas.