Authors: James Ronicle, Neil Stanworth & Beatriz Sasse
Organisations: Ecorys, ATQ Consultants
The Commissioning Better Outcomes (CBO) programme was funded by The National Lottery Community Fund. It operated from 2013 to 2024, with a mission to support the development of more social outcomes contracts in England. It made up to £40m available to pay for a proportion of outcomes payments for social outcome contracts commissioned locally (i.e. by local authorities, clinical commissioning groups, police and crime commissioners etc.)
CBO made 23 grant awards, funding 27 social outcome contracts. These can be grouped into 15 ‘families’ of similar projects. CBO also provided 62 development grants to support local commissioners in designing social outcome contracts.
This Synthesis Report is the final report of the evaluation of the CBO programme. The evaluation was undertaken by Ecorys and ATQ Consultants (ATQ).
To explore this topic further, see the related blog post: The Commissioning Better Outcomes Programme: what has ten years of evaluation taught us?