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Social Finance provides the following definition of SIBs, 

 

"Social Impact Bonds are a form of outcomes-based contract in which public sector commissioners commit to pay for significant improvement in social outcomes (such as a reduction in offending rates, or in the number of people being admitted to hospital) for a defined population.

 

Social Impact Bonds are an innovative way of attracting new investment around such outcomes-based contracts that benefit individuals and communities. Through a Social Impact Bond, private investment is used to pay for interventions, which are delivered by service providers with a proven track record. Financial returns to investors are made by the public sector on the basis of improved social outcomes. If outcomes do not improve, then investors do not recover their investment.

 

Social Impact Bonds provide up front funding for prevention and early intervention services, and remove the risk that interventions do not deliver outcomes from the public sector. The public sector pays if (and only if) the intervention is successful. In this way, Social Impact Bonds enable a re-allocation of risk between the two sectors."

 

Our Library also features a presentation giving a brief Overview of Outcomes Contracts, which was delivered by Bridges Ventures.

 

Achieving for Children is another social enterprise company that delivers a full range of children’s services.

 

For more information about SIBs, please visit the Cabinet Office's Centre for Social Impact Bonds or the GO Lab website