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  • The wellbeing impacts of Walking With The Wounded's programmes

    The wellbeing impacts of Walking With The Wounded's programmes

    A wellbeing analysis of the employment and mental health programmes run by Walking With The Wounded Read more

  • Place2Be’s one-to-one counselling service in UK primary schools: an updated cost-benefit analysis

    Place2Be’s one-to-one counselling service in UK primary schools: an updated cost-benefit analysis

    An updated cost-benefit analysis of Place2Be's 1:1 counselling service in primary schools. Read more

  • Paying the price: The cost of very poor adult literacy

    Paying the price: The cost of very poor adult literacy

    Improving the UK's literacy can not only help individuals to progress into higher earning roles, but it can also insulate them from sector-specific downturns as seen during the pandemic. Read more

  • Boosting pre-school language skills

    Boosting pre-school language skills

    This research explores long-term economic importance of early years language skills, highlighting why this basic skill is so crucial to individuals as well as wider society. Read more

  • The wellbeing impacts of Walking With The Wounded's programmes
  • Place2Be’s one-to-one counselling service in UK primary schools: an updated cost-benefit analysis
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Breaking Barriers

Breaking Barriers

Pro Bono Economics worked with Breaking Barriers to understand the potential value for money of their employment support for refugees in the UK. Read more

Published: 1st March, 2023

Author: Tim Lamden

Revolving Doors

Revolving Doors

Pro Bono Economics worked with Revolving Doors to review the feasibility of completing an economic analysis of the costs and benefits of adopting diversion policies. Read more

Published: 27th February, 2023

Author: Charlotte Warren

The wellbeing impacts of Walking With The Wounded's programmes

The wellbeing impacts of Walking With The Wounded's programmes

A wellbeing analysis of the employment and mental health programmes run by Walking With The Wounded Read more

Published: 12th December, 2022

Author: Charlotte Warren

Paying their way: Extending the right to work to all survivors of modern slavery

Paying their way: Extending the right to work to all survivors of modern slavery

An analysis for Hestia looking at how extending the right to work to all potential survivors of modern slavery could generate significant economic benefits to society. Read more

Published: 18th October, 2022

Updated: 15th November, 2022

Author: Charlotte Warren

An economic evaluation of the Career Ready programme

An economic evaluation of the Career Ready programme

An analysis of the economic benefits of the Career Ready programme based on its impact on A-level attainment. Read more

Published: 5th October, 2022

Updated: 2nd November, 2022

Author: Charlotte Warren

Exploring the impact of boarding school bursary places for children from vulnerable and disadvantaged backgrounds

Exploring the impact of boarding school bursary places for children from vulnerable and disadvantaged backgrounds

Impact analysis of Royal National Children's Springboard Foundation bursary programme. Read more

Published: 24th August, 2022

Author: Charlotte Warren

Stopping the spiral: Children and young people’s services spending 2010-11 to 2020-21

Stopping the spiral: Children and young people’s services spending 2010-11 to 2020-21

An analysis of spending on early and late intervention services for children and young people in England over the last decade. Read more

Published: 19th July, 2022

Updated: 5th August, 2022

Author: Charlotte Warren

Place2Be’s one-to-one counselling service in UK primary schools: an updated cost-benefit analysis

Place2Be’s one-to-one counselling service in UK primary schools: an updated cost-benefit analysis

An updated cost-benefit analysis of Place2Be's 1:1 counselling service in primary schools. Read more

Published: 28th June, 2022

Author: Charlotte Warren

Do the arts perform at school?

Do the arts perform at school?

This research provides a cost-benefit analysis of The Artis Foundation’s programme, which works with children and teachers to bring creativity to the classroom by using the performing arts. Read more

Published: 13th June, 2022

Author: Charlotte Warren

Effectiveness of Time to Shine

Effectiveness of Time to Shine

This report provides an analysis of the potential impact of Time to Shine by The Rank Foundation on the charities that take part in the programme. Read more

Published: 23rd May, 2022

Updated: 26th May, 2022

Author: Charlotte Warren

Breaking the cycle: The economic cost of poor parental mental health

Breaking the cycle: The economic cost of poor parental mental health

This research for Our Time provides an analysis of the economic impact of children raised by a parent who has mental health difficulties. Read more

Published: 17th May, 2022

Updated: 12th June, 2022

Author: Charlotte Warren

West London Zone

West London Zone

Pro Bono Economics worked with West London Zone to examine the potential economic outcomes of their programme of support for children facing multiple disadvantages in west London. Read more

Published: 29th April, 2022

Updated: 3rd May, 2022

Author: Charlotte Warren

The wellbeing value of reducing parental conflict

The wellbeing value of reducing parental conflict

This research provides a cost-benefit analysis of Tavistock Relation's Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT) for Parenting under Pressure to reduce parental conflict and have cost-effective benefits after one year. Read more

Published: 8th March, 2022

Updated: 4th August, 2022

Author: Tia Manavis

Learning to save: Teacher CPD as a cost-effective approach to improving retention

Learning to save: Teacher CPD as a cost-effective approach to improving retention

This research provides a cost-benefit analysis of continuing professional development for teachers, which suggests that increasing CPD is likely to prove cost-effective for the education system within two to three years. Read more

Published: 25th January, 2022

Author: Tia Manavis

Exploring the economic impact of Power2’s Teens and Toddlers programme

Exploring the economic impact of Power2’s Teens and Toddlers programme

This research provides an economic breakeven analysis for Teens and Toddlers - an educational programme designed to help young people succeed at school through the experience of mentoring nursery children. Read more

Published: 22nd November, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

An unstable environment: The economic case for getting asylum decisions right first time

An unstable environment: The economic case for getting asylum decisions right first time

This study for the Refugee Survival Trust looks at the significant costs incurred by UK taxpayers and applicants themselves through incorrect Home Office asylum decisions. Read more

Published: 20th November, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

The cost of not getting Personal Independence Payment decisions right first time

The cost of not getting Personal Independence Payment decisions right first time

A wealth of evidence suggests the process of awarding PIPs is not currently fit for purpose. Our analysis conservatively estimates that the administrative costs to DWP for processing the cases where initial PIP decisions were overturned at appeal in 2019/20 could have been £23-29 million. Read more

Published: 29th October, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

Paying the price: The cost of very poor adult literacy

Paying the price: The cost of very poor adult literacy

Improving the UK's literacy can not only help individuals to progress into higher earning roles, but it can also insulate them from sector-specific downturns as seen during the pandemic. Read more

Published: 15th September, 2021

Updated: 28th January, 2022

Author: Tia Manavis

Boosting pre-school language skills

Boosting pre-school language skills

This research explores long-term economic importance of early years language skills, highlighting why this basic skill is so crucial to individuals as well as wider society. Read more

Published: 21st July, 2021

Updated: 28th October, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

A decade of change for children's services funding

A decade of change for children's services funding

PBE’s research raises concerns of a false economy in children’s services, where the need for Local Authorities to cut costs has fallen predominantly on early interventions spending such as children’s centres, family support services and services for young people. Read more

Published: 12th July, 2021

Updated: 15th September, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

Estimating the benefits of End Youth Homelessness' Health Fund

Estimating the benefits of End Youth Homelessness' Health Fund

Our analysis provides evidence that the benefits to society from improving the mental health of young people experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness by providing mental health services faster and over more sessions are likely to out-weigh the costs. Read more

Published: 26th April, 2021

Updated: 17th May, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

Counting on the recovery

Counting on the recovery

With the Covid crisis and its impacts on our economy evident and plans to level up the economy through the recovery becoming real, the need for a national debate on numeracy is now an urgent one. Read more

Published: 14th April, 2021

Updated: 7th June, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

Employee volunteering schemes as a way of improving staff wellbeing

Employee volunteering schemes as a way of improving staff wellbeing

Through this analysis, supported by Bank of America, we demonstrate the potential for corporate volunteering schemes to be cost-effective ways of improving employee wellbeing once indirect cost savings from reduced absenteeism, presenteeism and staff turnover are incorporated. Read more

Published: 18th March, 2021

Updated: 21st July, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on problem debt in the UK

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on problem debt in the UK

Our analysis, commissioned by Citizens Advice, finds that there could be at least 1.5 million households at risk of problem debt by mid-2021 as a result of the economic fallout from the Covid-19 crisis - an increase of 370,000 – 480,000 households compared to pre-crisis levels. Read more

Published: 1st March, 2021

Updated: 14th April, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

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  • PBE Reacts: ONS inflation statistics, March 2022

    PBE Reacts: ONS inflation statistics, March 2022

    PBE Research and Policy Director Jansev Jemal gives her reaction to this month's ONS consumer price inflation statistics.

  • Budget 2023: Charity sector spotlight

    Budget 2023: Charity sector spotlight

    What charities need to know about the implications of the Chancellor's 2023 Budget for their income, demand, services, and the economy overall.

  • PBE Reacts: Chancellor's Budget 2023

    PBE Reacts: Chancellor's Budget 2023

    PBE's CEO Matt Whittaker gives his reaction to the Chancellor's Budget announcement.

  • PBE Reacts: ONS labour market statistics, March 2023

    PBE Reacts: ONS labour market statistics, March 2023

    PBE's CEO Matt Whittaker gives his reaction to this month's ONS labour market statistics.

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    Rising inflation: What do charities need to know?

    Inflation is rising. Charity boards and leadership teams need to be planning for rising inflation to impact costs, pay deals, donation levels, and demand. Pro Bono Economics has pulled together the key issues to look out for.

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  • A decade of change for children's services funding

    A decade of change for children's services funding

    PBE’s research raises concerns of a false economy in children’s services, where the need for Local Authorities to cut costs has fallen predominantly on early interventions spending such as children’s centres, family support services and services for young people.

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