This was a supporting detail page of the main policy document.
Payment by results involves judging how effective projects are in stopping reoffending, and giving funding to what we know works. Drug and alcohol recovery pilots In the drug strategy 2010 we committed to trialling payment by results for drug and alcohol recovery services. 8 local areas have worked with us to design the 3 national-level outcomes that providers will be paid to achieve. These are:
reducing people’s dependence on drugs
reduced reoffending
health and wellbeing
The Home Office has developed an offending outcome for the pilots, which allows providers to be assessed according to the offending of all locally engaged individuals. The pilots encourage joint working between treatment providers and criminal justice agencies. They concentrate on prolific drug-misusing offenders who do the most harm. We are helping local commissioners to adopt the principles of payment by results for drug and alcohol recovery services in their area. We have published a set of lessons learnt from the drug and alcohol recovery pilots. These lessons look at the development of the pilots and the outcomes. To accompany these we have run a series of workshops to look at the more technical side of payment by results. We will release offending data to every drug and alcohol recovery partnership and police and crime commissioner in England. The data will show local commissioners how many offences have been saved in their area. This information will enable commissioners to pay their providers based on a reduced level of offending.