2. SocialLink Emily Mason 19 October 2017
Dispelling the myths and mysteries of
Social Investment
SocialLink
Emily Mason
19 October 2017

3. What I’ll talk about What is social investment?
Learning what works for better lives
What is the role of the Social Investment Agency?
How we’re organised
Partnerships

4. What would you like to hear about?
Is there anything you would like me to focus on?
Do you have any questions?

5. Social investment is about understanding whether public services are delivering the right results – for individuals and for the country
The better use of data and evidence means we can understand:
What people need to realise their potential
The impact of government investment

6. Central Local Poor track record: Consultation Collaboration
Understanding

7. What I’ll talk about Learning what works for better lives
What is the role of the Social Investment Agency?
How we’re organised
Partnerships

10. Unproductive competition

11. Cost to the Government
Annual budget 2015/16

12. The case for early intervention

13. Social Housing model

14. Our first social investment test case
Designed to illustrate the fiscal impact of providing people with social housing.
For the first time we can see the impact of government spending across a broad range of fiscal outcomes.
More work is needed to understand the impact of social housing on social and economic outcomes.

15. Social Housing Analysis

16. Social Housing Results
There were no statistically significant findings for ACC, Health and CYF.

17. What I’ll talk about What is the role of the Social Investment Agency?
How we’re organised
Partnerships

18. Role of the Social Investment Agency
To help social sector agencies to deliver the right services, investing in what works for better lives.

19. Life trajectories

20. How we got here Formed July 2015 Formed Feb 2016 Formed July 2017
Social Investment Agency
Social Investment Unit
Social Sector Investment Change Programme
Formed July 2015
Formed Feb 2016
Formed
July 2017

21. How we work Government agencies Local government The SIA
Application of social investment
Communities
NGOs

22. How we work
Voice of the customer
Empirical testing
Evidence

23. Voice of the customer

24. Growing up in New Zealand
New Zealand's contemporary longitudinal study tracking the development of approximately 7,000 New Zealand children from before birth until they are young adults

26. Spending in the social sector

27. Data in the IDI
Statistics New Zealand’s Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) enables analysis across 40+ datasets on the population
Video

29. Individual’s data

30. Green: Characteristics Grey: Non-metric based outcomes
Age
Ethnicity
Gender
Iwi
TA code
Before school check outcome
Household composition
Mental health condition
Variables
Substance abuse/addiction condition
Chronic conditions and serious health events
Early childhood education attendance
Kohanga reo attendance
Immunisations
Te Reo speaker
Age at first birth
Flag of x address changes in y years
Variables
Highest qualification
Child has a police family violence notification
Child has a CYF contact record
CYF abuse findings
CYF placement events
Benefit T1 main
NZ Police victims
NZ Police offenders
Green: Characteristics
Grey: Non-metric based outcomes
Dark blue: Metric based variables
Variables
ACC injury claims
Primary and secondary school interventions
Industry training
Tax
Self-harm events
Mortality
Total Costs (all agencies)

31. Available variables Green: Characteristics
Age
Mental health condition (characteristic)
Diabetes
CFY placement events
Primary and secondary school enrolments
National Non-Admitted Patient Collection (NNAPAC)
Agency flags
Overall before school check outcome
Te reo speaker
Court charges
Industry training
National Immunisation Register (NIR)
Birth month
Strength and Difficulties behavioural questionnaire outcome - parent
Teen parent flag
Sentencing and remand events
Early childhood education
Tax
Birth year
Strength and Difficulties behavioural questionnaire outcome - teacher
Age at first birth
Benefit dynamics T1 main
General Medical Services (GMS) claims
Self-harm events
Date of birth
Household composition
Flag of x address changes in y years
Benefit dynamics T1 supplimetary
Laboratory claims
Mortality
Ethnicity (all)
Mental health condition
(Non-metric based outcomes)
Social housing flag
Benefit dynamics T3 hardship
Cancer registrations
Total costs (all agencies)
Ethnicity (prioritised)
Substance abuse / addiction condition
Highest qualification
New Zealand Police Victims
Chronic condition/significant health event cohort
Gender
Chronic conditions and serious health events
Child has a police family violence notification
New Zealand Police Offenders
B4 School Checks
Iwi
Early childhood education attendance
Child has a CYF contact record
ACC injury claims
Programme for the Integration of Mental Health Data (PRIMHD)
Region
Kohanga reo attendance
HNZ social housing applications
Primary and secondary school interventions
Pharmaceuticals
Spine indicator
Immunisations
CYF abuse findings
Tertiary education
Publicly funded hospital discharges – event and diagnosis/procedure information
Green: Characteristics
Grey: Non-metric based outcomes
Dark blue: Metric based variables

32. What I’ll talk about
How we’re organised
Partnerships

34. Data Exchange
IDI
NGOs

35. Improving measurement
Meth
IDI

36. Whole-of-system guidance

38. Commissioning and building the resources

39. What I’ll talk about
Partnerships

40. Pilot Partnerships

41. Questions for discussion
How might we use these ideas to understand/ inform social investment in communities?
What’s one thing you wonder?
What’s one thing that surprised you?
What’s one thing you will do with what you’ve learnt today?

42. Emily Mason General Manager Engagement Social Investment agency