Impact Bond: St Basil's
Stage of development: Complete
Policy sector: Homelessness
Social challenge: Homelessness
Intervention: Participants are allocated a Support Worker, who is a source of intensive, practical and psycho-social support throughout the programme – on the basis of individually tailored action plans informed by completion of the Outcomes Star and Risk Tracker. The project is also building a team of Community Coaches in each local authority area to provide additional support to participants. The complexity of need with which young people present mean that this support is designed to come later in the participant journey.		
								
								
								
Date outcomes contract signed: 2015-01
Start of service provision: 2015-01
Actual completion date: 2017-12
Total investment commitment currency: GBP
Total investment commitment: 1030000
Total investment commitment (USD): 1573611.052
Target population: Young people aged 18-24 not in employment, education, or training (NEET); homeless as defined in the homelessness legislation but not in priority need under that legislation and deemed a priority for local authority support but unable to be accommodated in a supported housing scheme.
Actual number of service users or beneficiaries engaged: 351
Actual unit type: Individual
Notes: Referral: Key referral routes were through a series of five local authority gateways, and self-referral through the provider website.
Additional assessment: The project also uses other non-outcome payment-related assessments, including process evaluation (following a mixed methods approach), costed case studies, and review of perfromance data against forecast. No impact evaluation or value for money analysis was conducted due to inability to establish a comparison group.