Transcript Self Directed Support: Developing the New Pathway

Accounting for your
impact
Samantha Tullett
[email protected];
(01323) 463410
East Sussex County Council Adult
Social Care
Measuring and accounting for
your social impact
Why do it?
Measuring and accounting for
your social impact
 Identify, account for and showcase what you already do
 Identify and address areas for review and sharpen focus on
‘mission’
 Better understand stakeholder relationships
 Be able to report comprehensively on performance and impact
 Be accountable through improved reporting
 Communicate value to existing and prospective funders and
customers
Measuring and accounting for
your social impact
How?
• Based on Triple Bottom Line concept:
– People (Social)
– Planet (Environmental)
– Profit (Local Economy)
• Social Accounting one way of demonstrating
Corporate Social Responsibility
• Various methods and tools:
– SROI, PQASSO, LM3, SAN
– Advantages and disadvantages to each
– All produce a form of ‘Social Accounts’
• Level of depth – up to you!
Social Audit Network Approach
“Social accounting and audit help you
prove, improve and account for the
difference you are making…”
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Need clear vision, mission and values
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Defined objectives to inform identification of activities, outputs,
outcomes and impacts
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Six key aspects to be reported on:
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Human Resources
Good Governance and accountability
Asset Lock and use of profit
Financial sustainability
Environmental sustainability
Economic impact
4 Stages:
1. What difference do we make?
About focus; what you do, why, who with and for, what
difference you intend to make?
2. How do we know we are making a
difference?
About information and recording; what need to know, how
will track?
3. What is the difference?
About presenting information; How report, what you can
say about difference (and what you can’t!), what’s the
impact?
4. Can we prove it?
About verification; Credibility of claims, who has
checked them?
What do they
look like?
Apetito
“Sustainability
Report”
Cooperative
Financial
Services
“Sustainability
Report”
Social Impact
The Wise
Group
Social
Accounts
4 pages total
Training, resources and further
information
• Provider Guide COMING SOON!
• SCIE Social Care Institute for Excellence
• Social Audit Network (SAN):
– Locally Samantha Tullett and Barbara Beaton
– “Guide to Social Accounting and Audit”
• The SROI network