Pan London Care Impact Partnership Social Outcomes Contract: Final in-depth review

The Commissioning Better Outcomes (CBO) Fund is a programme funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, which aims to support the development of more social impact bonds (SIBs) and other outcomes-based commissioning models in England. The National Lottery Community Fund commissioned Ecorys and ATQ Consultants to evaluate the programme. A key element of the evaluation is nine in-depth reviews of projects developed with support from the programme, and the ‘Pan London Care Impact Partnership Social Outcomes Contract is one of these, with the project itself being called the ‘Positive Families Partnership’ (PFP).

This project used intensive family therapy to help families stay together, preventing children and young people from entering care. It’s also an example of good practice in simplifying a complex partnership set-up.

This report is the final review of PFP, which reports on the performance of the project, the effects of commissioning and delivering the project through a Social Outcomes Contract (SOC), an assessment of the value-for-money (VfM) of the SOC, and overview of the legacy of PFP. It is based on a review of performance data from the CBO, documents provided by stakeholders, and consultations with the main stakeholders involved in the PFP. These included five of the ten London Borough commissioners, two of the three service providers (Family Psychology Mutual and Family Action), the core PFP team and Bridges Fund Management as the social investment fund manager, which provided social investment to support the project.