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Public Sector Pay for Performance

Project
Evaluation of Drug and Alcohol
RAND Europe conducted an independent evaluation of the UK Department of Health's drug and alcohol recovery payment-by-results pilots to determine whether market forces can encourage the development of better recovery programs.
May 3, 2019
Commentary
The Hidden Costs of Pension Plan Reform
While there are many policy options that may decrease pension liabilities for Chicago and cities and states in similar situations, some options being considered may also have serious consequences for the public sector workforce, now and in the future.
May 18, 2016
Commentary
Does Intervention or Investment Innovate? Social Impact Bonds at the Close of the Peterborough Prison Pilot
There is limited evidence to support the assumption that social impact bonds offer a particularly effective way to spur innovation in service provision and will only have beneficial effects.
Jan 25, 2016
Project
Evaluating the World's First Social Impact Bond
A process evaluation of a new funding mechanism implemented at a prison in the east of England, whereby private investors covered the costs of delivering public services to offenders on release from prison, provides evidence and key lessons on the operation of social impact bonds.
Dec 18, 2015
Journal Article
An Evaluation of Social Impact Bonds in Health and Social Care: Interim Report
This interim report describes the progress of the nine 'Trailblazer' projects that investigate the feasibility of setting up Social Impact Bond (SIB) projects in health and social care in England.
Apr 1, 2015
Commentary
A Competitive Landscape for Providing Services Is an Opportunity for Evidence-Building, but Who Will Benefit?
In a tight fiscal climate the UK government has been an innovator in ways to fund and deliver effective public services. New funding arrangements present opportunities for developing the evidence base for policy and practice, since they are associated with different types of service providers.
Dec 2, 2014
Report
Phase 2 report from the payment by results Social Impact Bond pilot at HMP Peterborough
This report is the second from the evaluation of the Social Impact Bond pilot at Peterborough prison. Based on stakeholder interviews it looks at the operation of the pilot over the last four years.
Jul 18, 2014
Journal Article
Drugs and Alcohol PBR Pilot Evaluation: Scoping and Feasibility Report
The purpose of the PbR Pilots is to develop and test out new approaches to the commissioning and delivery of drugs and alcohol recovery systems that reward achievement of this outcome.
Nov 1, 2012
Research Brief
Evaluation of the Social Impact Bond: Lessons from planning and early implementation at HMP Peterborough
RAND Europe has evaluated the world's first Social Impact Bond (SIB), an innovative payment-by-results mechanism to fund public services which aims to reduce reoffending by prisoners. This report presents the initial findings of the evaluation.
Dec 14, 2011
Report
Investing in Social Outcomes to Fund Public Services
At a time when government finances are stretched there is growing interest in finding new ways to fund public services. In 2010 the first ever Social Impact Bond was launched in the UK to provide investors who had funded government interventions for imprisoned offenders with a portion of the resultant savings.
Nov 4, 2011
Multimedia
Improving Public Services
RAND recently assessed accountability systems in five sectors (child care, education, health care, public health emergency preparedness, and transportation) and made recommendations on how to improve such systems to better achieve government or agency goals.
Oct 25, 2010
Research Brief
Are Performance-Based Accountability Systems Effective? Evidence from Five Sectors
Creating an effective Performance-Based Accountability System (PBAS) requires careful attention to selecting an appropriate design for the PBAS, given the context in which it is to operate, and to monitor, evaluate, and adjust the system, as appropriate.
Jul 28, 2010
Report
Performance-Based Accountability Systems for Public Services
Evidence supports continued experimentation with and adoption of performance-based accountability systems (PBAS) in various sectors: child care, education, health care, public health emergency preparedness, and transportation. However, PBAS design and its prospects for success depend on the context in which it will operate.
Jul 21, 2010
Report
Financial Incentives Can Improve Public Sector Performance
Performance-based accountability systems can improve how employees deliver public services, but evidence demonstrating how effective these systems are at achieving their performance goals is rare.
Jul 19, 2010

RAND Topic:
Public Sector Pay for Performance

Topic Synonyms:
Payment by Results