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New research into social impact bonds reveals “unintended effects”

May 09, 2017
by Alun Severn
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We’ve written quite extensively about Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) elsewhere on this blog. SIBs have been pursued as a specific policy initiative because it is said they enable more flexible services, reduce the risk of service innovation (by ‘distributing’ that risk t
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Social Impact Bonds — the first six years

July 06, 2016
by Alun Severn
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Social Finance has today launched Social Impact Bonds: The Early Years, a new report covering the progress of the Social Impact Bond market in the six years since its inception with the Peterborough criminal justice system SIB. To date, sixty SIBs have launched in fifteen countries, r
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MoJ abandons SIB model in Peterborough pilot?

April 28, 2014
by Alun Severn
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Further to this post about the social impact bond (SIB) pilot at Peterborough prison, Third Sector Online is carrying an interesting story today which suggests that the SIB model may be dropped for the third cohort of offenders to be supported under the programme. Discussions are
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Social Finance issues first report on the Peterborough ‘social impact bond’

November 30, 2011
by Alun Severn
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Further to this post on Social Impact Bonds, Social Finance has today issued the following statement regarding the Peterborough social impact bond which many of you will remember seeks to reduce reoffending amongst a defined cohort of offenders: Today Social Finance publishes a report
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Social Impact Bonds

March 14, 2011
by Alun Severn
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For anyone who is interested in current debates regarding the development of  the Social Impact Bond (a means whereby private investors can invest in and receive a financial return from the government based on specific social outcomes being achieved) but who couldn’t be at
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