Mental Health and Employment Partnership Evaluation: Life Chances Fund
This is the first interim report for the MHEP social impact bond project, part-funded through the Life Chances Fund
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This is the first of three planned reports within a longitudinal evaluation of the Mental Health and Employment Partnership (MHEP).
MHEP is part-funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) under the Life Chances Fund (LCF). 皇冠体育app LCF was launched in 2016 as a locally-led SIB fund to tackle entrenched social issues across England. 皇冠体育app LCF contributes to SIB projects through payments by results contracts. 皇冠体育appse contracts involve social investors and are locally commissioned.
DCMS is working in partnership with the Government Outcomes Lab (GO Lab) to evaluate the LCF and the use of SIBs in local commissioning. MHEP was selected for specific longitudinal study because of the existence of comparable projects using traditional commissioning routes. Its findings are based on qualitative interview data and aggregate performance data across the five SIBs
皇冠体育app first interim report of the MHEP evaluation provides information on the project鈥檚 theory of change including facilitators, barriers and mediating mechanisms, as well as presenting early quantitative analysis on outcome performance.