Stakeholder Outcome Indicator Possible Proxies
Person with Improvement • Amount of time spent • Cost of membership of a
mental in mental socialising social club/network
health health • Extent to which • Percentage of income
problem participants engage in normally spent on leisure,
new activities • Cost of counselling
• Level of use of mental sessions
health services
Local Improved • Take-up of those services, • Savings in time and
community access to local and by whom travel costs of being able
services to access services locally
Person with Improved • Number of visits to • Cost of visiting private
physical physical GP surgery GP clinic
health health • Extent of improvements in • Cost of health insurance
problem health (self-reported) • Cost of gym membership
• How often they exercise
Care giver Improved • Number of hours respite/ • Value of hours spent
Stag
wellbeing spent in leisure activities engaged in these activities
Stag
e
The Less waste • Amount of waste going
• Cost of landfill charges e

environ- to landfill
• Cost of CO2 emissions

ment • Level of carbon emissions
Prisoners’ Improved • Number of family visits • Cost and time spent on
families relationships • Satisfaction with family travel
with family visits
and social ties
Young Decrease in • Level of drug use • Average amount spent by
people drug use young people on drugs
Offenders Reduced • Frequency of offences for • Forgone wages due to
reoffending which participant is charged time spent in prison or
• Nature of offence doing community service
Care leaver Reduced • Access housing upon • Rent
homeless- leaving care • Cost of hostel
ness • Satisfaction with accommodation
appropriateness
of housing
Woman Improved • Child continues living in • Amount that parents
offender family the family home spend on their children
relationship annually
• Value of time spent with
children
• Cost of childcare
Local Improved • Residents report • Change in property prices
community perception of improvements in • Amount spent on home
the local area local area improvements
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