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The Social Outcomes Fund is aimed at easing the burden on Local Authorities when new Social Impact Bonds are created. Frequently, the types of innovative services delivered by a Local Authority under a Social Impact Bond Programme will have impacts that extend beyond the statutory provisions of the Local Authority – and produce additional beneficial impacts to other public bodies, in particular to central government.

Negotiating with central government can be an onerous task - especially given the relative novelty of social impact bonds. In the development of the Essex SIB – which deals with children on the fringes of residential care – the negotiations with central government took nine months.


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