A briefing paper by the Family and Parenting Institute (FPI) and The Children’s Society highlights the importance of charities engaging with the development of payment-by-results.
These paper raises concerns around the timings of payment; the need to avoid services cherry-picking those who are easiest to reach; and issues around the sharing of data between different services.
The charities have proposed a number of principles for the future development of payment-by-results with families, principally that it must not threaten the existence of core statutory, universal services for families.
"Where services ‘fail’ this should not harm the provision of services to vulnerable groups," the paper states.
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