I highly recommend the Outcomes Star™ to organisations undertaking a Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis. In my experience, the biggest challenge in doing an SROI is having good outcomes data. The Outcomes Star is probably the most developed, robust and easy-to-use tool for collecting distance travelled data.

Dr Eva Neitzert, New Economics Foundation 

 

Commissioning

Many commissioners are looking for ways of introducing an outcomes focus into their commissioning. Camden, Wirral, Rochdale, Waltham Forest, Cardiff and Kirklees are among the commissioners known by Triangle Consulting to be writing versions of the Outcomes Star™ into contracts or strongly encouraging service providers to use it.

Several have used Triangle Consulting to train their providers to use the Star in service delivery and in Camden, Triangle is supporting the delivery of an Outcomes Based Commissioning within Supporting People, Mental Health and Children, Schools and Families.

Based on our experience of working with a range of commissioners, we have outlined: