Linkage Further Education College

Matthew Orford Education Director/ Principal

Karen Bowden – Programme Area ManagerMichele Swann – Corporate Excellence Manager

Sally Warr – Learner Engagement Manager

Social Impact Evaluation using Social Return on Investment

National Audit Office Report (NAO)• Department for Education (DfE) oversight of Special Education

for Young People aged 16 to 25 (published on the 4/11/13)

• Cost of supporting a person with moderate learning difficulty from age 16 to 64 is £2-3m

• Providing learners with skills to live semi independently saves £1m on that figure and progressing them into employment saves another £170,000

• NAO wanted to build on this analysis of lifetime benefits and costs so that the relationship of special education interventions to longer term outcomes can be better understood

Linkage Further Education College

Matthew Orford Education Director/ Principal

Changing views…..changing lives

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Changing views…..changing lives

Key Findings:

(i) Annual funding received from the Skills Funding Agency and Education Funding Agency(ii) Annual intake of learners

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Changing views…..changing lives

Scope of Report:

• Higher level of independence

• Lower level of independence

• Move onto HE and then employment

• Move back in with parents

Changing views…..changing lives

Changing views…..changing lives

• Discuss in your groups……What would the individual life outcomes be if your college had not interacted with learners?

Changing views…..changing lives

The Challenge

• In your groups……. Identify how your organisation can use this information to justify the cost /benefit of Specialist Provision?

Thank you for participating

Changing views…..changing lives