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The Healthcheck Model
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Developed and piloted (in the North East, North West and London) by the Development Trusts Association, the Healthcheck Model is a quality system based on the core criteria of development trusts but with potential application to other social enterprises.
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Key Performance Indicators
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Developed and piloted by Co-operatives UK, Key Performance Indicators are a mechanism for capturing the social performance of the co-operative approach, values and principles. It is expected that ten key performance indicators will be benchmarked and piloted with co-operatives nationally.
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Balanced Scorecard for Social Firms
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Research into the use of quality and impact tools within the Social Firms sector and development and piloting of a Balanced Scorecard approach within social firms
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Social Return on Investment
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Led by the New Economics Foundation, Social Return on Investment is a mechanism to capture the social benefits of projects and explore the financial values of social returns (e.g. reduction in welfare spend or increases in taxes raised through increasing employment).
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Ethical Explorer
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Led by a consortium of leading social accounting experts, Ethical Explorer is a new online tool developed to help organisations to engage with their stakeholders and practice social reporting. The project will offer Ethical Explorer as a potential tool for piloting with social enterprises.
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LM3
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LM3 is an approach to measuring and improving local economic impact. NEF has piloted LM3 with social enterprises, and is also helping local authorities pilot LM3 to support social enterprises.
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Layered Social Accounting – Accessible Social Auditing (CBS Scotland)
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The project will re-visit social auditing and develop a new approach which takes into account the size and capacity of the organisation.
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