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SIB Future development and trends
Webinar 17 May 2011
Toby Eccles
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Agenda
Section 1 – Introduction and definition
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Section 3 – Adapting to new social areas• Issues for government• Issues in building models • Potential market growth
Section 4 – Challenges for stakeholders• Commissioners• Service Providers• Investors
Section 2 – A model for social change• Commissioning on outcomes• Towards an effective social economy• Early interventions
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We are a team of bankers and social sector specialists.
We believe that if social problems are to be tackled effectively, successful organisations seeking to solve them need sustainable revenues and investment to enable innovation and growth.
Our role is to devise the financial structures and raise the capital to enable this to happen.
Key social issues
Voluntary Sector
Government
Social Finance
Research & Development
Financial Structuring
Capital Raising
Long-term Social
Change
Social Investment
Market Growth
Voluntary Sector
Development
Private Sector
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What is a Social Impact Bond?
• A Social Impact Bond is a contract with the public sector in which it commits to pay for improved social outcomes.
• On the back of this contract, investment is raised from socially-motivated investors.
• This investment is used to pay for a range of interventions to improve the social outcomes.
• The financial returns investors receive are dependent on the degree to which outcomes improve.
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Social Impact Bond mechanism
Social Impact Bonds raise funds for outcomes-focused activity based on a contract with public sector agencies. Investors are repaid on the basis of the outcomes achieved.
Social Impact Bond
Delivery Agency
Public Sector Investors
Target population
Make payment based on defined
outcomes
Financial returns
dependent on outcomes
Initial investment
FundsService Providers
Advisory Committee
Information
Services
Improved social outcomes
Reduced public sector costs
Wider benefits to society
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Agenda
Section 1 – Introduction and definition
Section 3 – Adapting to new social areas• Issues for government• Issues in building models • Potential market growth
Section 4 – Challenges for stakeholders• Commissioners• Service Providers• Investors
Section 2 – A model for social change• Commissioning on outcomes• Towards an effective social economy• Early interventions
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Finding funding for services
Commissioning on outcomes
The problem of attribution
• If payments are made in arrears, organisation will need to find funding to pay for the delivery of services.
• Third sector organisations often struggle to access working capital to cover this gap:
o There is a lack of supply of finance in the sector; and
o Very few organisations have sufficient reserves to pay for service delivery.
• As a result, only a small range of organisations will be able to engage in outcomes-based commissioning.
• Effective organisations may be unable to participate.
•Outcomes are rarely achieved through one service.
• For example, helping an ex-offender to turn their life around might require housing advice, employment training and addiction support.
• It is often difficult to identify which services are the ones that achieve the intended outcome.
• It is rare that one organisation alone can provide all of the services needed to achieve the outcome.
• As a result, it is sometimes difficult to build a contract based on outcomes with individual organisations.
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Commissioning has in the past been focused on inputs, efficiency, and process rather than quality. There are a range of ways to improve commissioning, one of which is outcomes. Two factors make commissioning on outcomes difficult.
Deliver services
Achieve outcomes and
receive funding
Funding gap
SIBs bring in separate investors to provide the outcome finance and allow services to be commissioned as a group
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Towards an effective social economy
Third sector delivery of public servicesA healthy social economy needs both
diversity of provision and rational market discipline.
The benefits of third sector public service delivery
•Quality is increased thanks to localised services that are developed by trusted organisations.
• It leads to a greater diversity of provision and increased choice, pressures that can lead to better services.
Barriers to third sector involvement
•Many third sector organisations lack the scale and capacity to bid for public sector contracts.
• They do not typically have access to investment that will allow them to build such capacity.
• Public sector contracts are not always aligned with third sector organisations’ mission. This can lead to ‘mission drift.’ 8
There is widespread agreement that charities and social enterprises should be more involved in the delivery of public services, and that there is a need for an effective social economy.
Diversity of provision
• A healthy social economy needs a wide variety of robust, high quality service providers.
• Sometimes commissioning practices can favour larger, often private sector, service providers.
Rational market discipline
A key issue is that present funding streams do not act as an effective market discipline:•Grants can be opaque and at times irrational. •Revenue from public sector contracts can be focused on inputs and process. •Donations focus on brand, not impact.
Outcomes as a market discipline would be a substantial improvement for the social economy and enable greater investment in successful social enterprises.
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Early interventions
•Government budgets are limited and early intervention spending is easier to cut in difficult times.
•Over time this creates a a negative spending cycle and an ever growing need for government resources to be spent on expensive acute care.
• Social Impact Bonds can support positive spending cycles that increase investment into early interventions and community-based care.
The Social Impact Bond can support the shift from acute to community-based care
Social Impact Bonds transfer the risk of failure of early intervention away from the public sector and allow investment in prevention without impacting on the acute budget until outcomes are achieved
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Agenda
Section 1 – Introduction and definition
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Section 3 – Adapting to new social areas• Issues for government• Issues in building models• Potential market growth
Section 4 – Challenges for stakeholders• Commissioners• Service Providers• Investors
Section 2 – A model for social change• Commissioning on outcomes• Towards an effective social economy• Early interventions
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Adapting to new social areas
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Criminal Justice
Many women who end up in prison are themselves victims of abuse, domestic abuse or violence
Can more women be diverted from going to prison, by intervening with those who have received multiple community orders
Children’s ServicesChildren who have been in care have many of the poorest outcomes in our society• 50% of the prison population have
been in care• 80% of Big Issue sellers have been
in care
Can intensive support for families and foster carers, reduce the numbers entering care and provide more stable, family environments for those in the care system?
Drug Rehabilitation
Hospital admissions are rising, partly due to the growing numbers of older people and patients with long-term conditions such as diabetes. They are costly for commissioners and disruptive for patients. Can better community interventions and primary care services help patients with long-term conditions to stay healthy and out of hospital?
Users are significantly more likely to commit crime, claim benefits, experience health problems and have their children taken into care
Can additional services such as family counselling, peer mentorship and transitional employment services, improve treatment outcomes?
Healthcare
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Issues for government
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Outcomes for multiple parties
A unified central government outcomes fund to support locally generated model would support this emerging stage of the market
Cashability of cost savings
A supply reduction strategy needed alongside the demand reduction strategy of the SIB
Local authority and housing
Criminal JusticePolice
Benefits
Health
Drug Rehabilita
tion
Chaotic Families
Easily realised
More difficult
• Reduced children in care children’s home places
• Reduced hospital admissions reduced hospital beds
• Reduced offending fewer prison places
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Issues in building models
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Alignment of cost
outcome with social
value
Fully aligned: Reduced reoffending
Secondary outcome measures required to ensure incentives are effectively aligned
Scale and attribution
Considerations: stability of historical data/baseline and cashability of cost savings
Partially aligned: Reduced numbers of Children in care
Sometimes looking at smaller populations and/or where a comparison group is hard to develop
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Further observations
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The development of the SIB model in any new area is complex and requires time• Once a model is put together the potential for wider replication is significant
The outcome and comparison structures require the most work• Careful analytics and research need to be balanced with pragmatism• We define the best outcome measure as “the simplest measure possible that
effectively incentivizes the right behaviour from service providers and gives investors confidence”.
Impact of interaction between different department’s payment by results pilots unclear• For example, the work programme (DWP), Drug rehabilitation (DH), Reducing
reoffending (MoJ)
There is inertia created by the uncertainty of delivering cost savings• We have been helped by working in a broader cost cutting environment when supply
reduction strategies are already being put in place
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Potential market growth
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Note 1. Criminal Justice figures do not include Peterborough SIB2. Which areas progress more rapidly and which more slowly is unpredictable, therefore the headings
are to some extent indicative
Sept 2012 Sept 2013 Sept 2014Criminal Justice No. of SIBs launched per year # 2 5 12 Value of SIBs launched per year £ £20,000,000 £50,000,000 £120,000,000Childrens Services - LA SIBs No. of SIBs launched per year # 2 8 20 Value of SIBs launched per year £ £14,000,000 £60,000,000 £160,000,000Healthcare SIBs No. of SIBs launched per year # 1 2 10 Value of SIBs launched per year £ £5,000,000 £15,000,000 £150,000,000Drug Rehabilitation SIBs No. of SIBs launched per year # 1 2 3 Value of SIBs launched per year £ £5,000,000 £12,000,000 £21,000,000Young Adults - LA SIBs No. of SIBs launched per year # 0 1 5 Value of SIBs launched per year £ £0 £5,500,000 £35,000,000Chaotic Families - LA SIBs No. of SIBs launched per year # 1 3 6 Value of SIBs launched per year £ £5,000,000 £15,000,000 £30,000,000Total SIB Market No. of SIBs launched per year # 7 20 53 Value of SIBs launched per year £ £46,000,000 £156,500,000 £445,000,000
Cumulative No. of SIBs # 7 27 80 Cumulative value of SIBs £ £49,000,000 £203,500,000 £718,500,000
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Agenda
Section 1 – Introduction and definition
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Section 3 – Adapting to new social areas• Issues for government• Issues in building models• Potential market growth
Section 4 – Challenges for stakeholders• Commissioners• Service Providers• Investors
Section 2 – A model for social change• Commissioning on outcomes• Towards an effective social economy• Early interventions
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Challenges for stakeholders
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• Managing risk of both failure and success• Lack of experience• Ensuring genuine risk transfer• Working on innovative structure at a time of massive change
Commissioners
• Collaborating for outcomes• Availability of evidence• Building compelling intervention propositions
Design thinking vs. Evidenced programmes
Service Providers
• Present social investment market players would not support capital at levels outlined above
• Need to generate structures to reach into different investor communities
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Commissioners
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Move towards market shaping and away from procuring is a huge challengeCommissioners have traditionally assessed what services are required and then procured them as cheaply as possible
This model assumes that the commissioner knows best• What services are needed and what is best value for service users
• What is the best intervention model for achieving the desired social outcomes
The role becomes one of defining the market, either by • Agreeing budgets for service users to spend and supporting them in spending them,
or by • Valuing outcomes and commissioning services accordingly, enabling greater
adaptation to service users and innovation in service provision
This model assumes that either the service user or a mix of the service user and the service providers know what works best
This model requires very different skills and expertise which are only just emerging
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Service providers I – Intervention development
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Two emerging needs – intervention development and service integration
Service design: Develop by focusing on insights gained by shadowing the user experience
Both are valuable and share a data driven approach, but are not directly compatible.
Extracting the best of both is one of our key challenges.
Two schools of thought on
intervention development
Evidence based programmes: Focus on scientifically proven interventions and manage quality through fidelity to the original programme structure
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Service providers II – Service integration
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Integration
Service Providers
Investors / Finance
Government
• Contract management• Information management• Technical assistance• Performance management• Interface management
Service integration is an emerging expertise that is key to achieving outcomes
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Investors
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New structures are needed to bring together the level of capital required
Investors in individual projects likely to stay relatively specialised
• Can we reduce the overhead and transaction costs per transaction?
• Can we open up new pools of capital by using tax incentives such as the Enterprise Investment Scheme or a Venture Capital Trust?
To broaden the market we see two structures that are needed:
• Capital guaranteed or partially guaranteed SIBs: by reducing the perceived level of capital risk , we believe that we should be able to expand the range of investors
• SIB Funds: pooling of investments to provide scale and diversification
• Both require a few more SIBs to be up and running before they can be fully explored
Individual SIBs Structure Products
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Conclusion
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• Two mega trends into which the Social Impact Bond plays• Building a market oriented approach to public service provision
– Focusing on the needs of service users rather than government– Focusing on outcomes rather than inputs and process– Moving away from government as monopoly supplier
• If successful could have as profound an impact as the development of the welfare state…
• Building a social investment market– People starting to realise that their money is part of their influence on
the world– The potential is for active investments in society for people to be
proud of and talk about– The scale of passive ethical investment indicates the potential scale of
this market
• If successful could change people’s relationship with their own money
• This is an opportunity to support profound positive change in our society
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