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Building Community Capacity: Making an Economic Case

Building Community Capacity: Making an Economic Case
Knapp M, Bauer A, Perkins M Personal Social Services Research Unit, London. 2010

Project ID (Internal)	30
Project Status	completed
Full Reference (text)	Knapp M, Bauer A, Perkins M, et al (2010) Building community capacity: making an economic case. Personal Social Services Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science. [The report can be accessed here]
Full Reference (URL)	https://www.pssru.ac.uk/pub/dp2772.pdf
Summary / Abstract	Our aim in this small study was to develop simple ‘models’ of interventions that can contribute to local community development programmes by examining some of the possible impacts. We could not look at all impacts because of data limitations. These are necessarily simplified representations of reality, because of the availability of evidence. But this is a pragmatic approach, using published, unpublished and experiential evidence, and working closely with local experts, and was the most helpful way to go forward given time constraints. We calculated the costs of three particular community initiatives – time banks, befriending and community navigators for people with debt or benefits problems – and found that each generated net economic benefits in quite a short time period. Each of those calculations was conservative in that we only attached a monetary value to a subset of the potential benefits.
Publication Title	Building Community Capacity: Making an Economic Case
Author(s)	Knapp M, Bauer A, Perkins M
Publication Details	Personal Social Services Research Unit, London.
Publication Year / End of Project	2010
Last Accessed	03/01/2019 12:00 am
NAO Keyword(s)	Advocacy; Assessing needs; Care and support planning; Day services; Home care; Safeguarding;

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