Mental Health and Employment Partnership (MHEP): Final in-depth review

The Commissioning Better Outcomes (CBO) Fund is a social impact bond (SIB) programme, funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, which aims to support the development of more SIBs and other outcomes-based commissioning (OBC) models in England. The National Lottery Community Fund has commissioned Ecorys and ATQ Consultants to evaluate the programme. A key element of the CBO evaluation is nine in-depth reviews, and this review of the first project commissioned through the Mental Health and Employment Partnership (MHEP 1) is one of these. It is the final review of this project and aims to draw overall conclusions about the success of MHEP 1, its value for money, and the lessons that we think can be learned from it for other projects.