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Measuring and mapping our wellbeing
The social housing sector has been increasingly conscious of its need
to measure and demonstrate the social value it creates, writes Lizzie Trotter from HACT.
The Wellbeing Valuation approach
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Alistair McIntosh,
Wrestling with value and price
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SROI Evidence Your chance to share and win
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A clutch of recent social impact reports have highlighted the value provided by housing and related activities – but have also raised questions about what must be done to maximise that value. Julian Dobson reports
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Pointing the way to better services
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A recent policy focus in the homelessness
encouraging third sector homeless service providers to develop social enterprise as a means to providing employment as a route out of homelessness. Simon Teasdale of Glasgow Caledonian University reports on his study of the tensions created.
The organisations’ approaches
Help from other sectors
A social enterprise is a business with primarily social objectives, whose surpluses are principally reinvested for
that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven
shareholders and owners.1 ”
Balancing social and business aims
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A way forward?
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The idea of the counterfactual, ie what would have happened anyway if we had not undertaken the intervention, is a fundamental concept in impact assessments. Stephen Russell from Midland Heart explains
MODIFIED MARYLAND EVALUATION SCALE
Level Design
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Source: Dolan, Fujiwara and Metcalfe (2012), Review and Update of Research into Adult Learning, BIS Research Paper No 90.
To do or not to do: That is the question
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How to measure SROI
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2. Understand what changes
3. Value the things that matter
4. Only include what is material
5. Do not over-claim
6. Be transparent
7. Verify the result
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Debate: what’s in a name?Just as there are many ways to measure what housing organisations do, so there are all kinds of names for these activities. Here we take a quick look at some current thinking on ‘social value’ and the names it may go by.
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