PFS SIB programme to reduce loneliness in UK county of Worcester while the Australian Social Services Minister outlines his reform blueprint with SIBs centre stage…
UK – Worcestershire To Run Country’s First Payment-By-Results Initiative Combatting Loneliness
Worcester News
A major charity, local voluntary groups and community organisations in Worcestershire will be working from August to help 3,000 older people in the county overcome loneliness.
Worcestershire County Council and the county’s three Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) have awarded the country’s first payment-by-results programme – Social Impact Bond – to tackle this type of issue.
Australia – Scott Morrison Sets Out Welfare Reform Blueprint (subscription)
Dennis Shanahan – The Australian
Scott Morrison has laid out a welfare reform blueprint that tries to address the failure of federation to solve housing problems, seeks to tap into private investment to create social bonds for welfare and looks at limiting total family welfare income to end intergenerational welfare dependency.
Mr Morrison said private involvement in providing social housing had to be investigated and said trials of social impact bonds — where community engagement is encouraged with private investment in government bonds — in NSW, New Zealand and Canada were successful and needed to be considered.