Preparation for tool
The tool will go through a series of questions for you to answer on your service or intervention. Whilst completing the series of questions, you will always have the option to save your progress and edit previously commenced cases. On completion of compulsory questions, the tool will produce a business case report, which you can save as a PDF. Here’s a list of information you should have prepared prior to commencing the series of questions:
- Information on your service or intervention, including the difference you are trying to make
- Information on the population you are working with, including age and gender
- Information on the cost of the service or intervention, including your organisation’s overheads
- Description of a service user’s journey through your service or intervention
- The likely service or intervention completion rate of your service users
- Information on your service or intervention’s target outcomes and the number of service users that achieved it
Tool assumptions
- Latest proven reoffending rates for adult/juvenile males and adult/juvenile females (July 2014 – June 2015), Proven reoffending statistics (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/proven-reoffending-statistics)
- Latest proven reoffending frequency rates for adult/juvenile males and adult/juvenile females (July 2014 – June 2015), Proven reoffending statistics (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/proven-reoffending-statistics)
- Average cost per crime:
- Recorded crime figures for 2015/16, Outcomes open data year ending March 2016 (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables)
- 2010 unit cost per crime (converted to 2016 prices using GDP deflators), IOM Efficiency Toolkit Phase 2: revised unit costs of crime and multipliers (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/unit-costs-of-crime-and-multipliers-revised)
- Distribution of costs by sector, The economic and social costs of crime against individuals and households 2003/04, Tables 2.1 and 2,2