Social Impact Investing

SOCIAL IMPACT INVESTMENT: BUILDING THE EVIDENCE BASE
Figure 5.5 In countries where there is low childcare enrolment and low part-time employment, there is likely to
be unmet demand for childcare
Source: OECD dot.stat, education and employment series, the OECD Family database (both 2014e), and the Health Behaviour in
School-aged Children Study (2010).
Table 5.3: Cross-nationally, changes in aggregate childcare enrolment do not map to female (un)employment
figures
Pre-school
enrolment rate
children aged 3-5
years
% children < 3 in
formal childcare and
pre-school
Women - Part-time
employment
Women –
Unemp. rate
Children 11-15 in
foster or child
homes (per
thousand)
2007 2011 2006 2010 2009 2013 2009 2013 2010
Australia 54.9 59.1 33.2 33.9 32.8 4.6 4.7
Canada 46.7 19.8 19.1 6.1 5.6 11.4
France 100 99.2 42.4 48 21.2 20.7 8.2 8.7 14.1
Germany 91.2 94.2 13.6 23.1 39.1 37.6 6.9 4.6 4.4
Italy 98.3 95.3 28.6 24.2 30.2 32.5 8.5 12.4 17.4
Japan 88.7 88.8 22.5 25.9 30.5 32.1 4.9 3.9
United Kingdom 89.8 94.1 39.7 42 35.1 35.1 5.2 5.6 5.7
United States 59.1 70.3 43.2 13.6 11.7 7.2 6.3 3.5
OECD - Average 77.4 80.9 28.8 32.6 22.7 22.8 7 7.5 7.4
Source: OECD dot.stat, education and employment series, the OECD Family database (both 2014e), and the Health Behaviour in
School-aged Children Study (2010).
5.25 Another ‘family’ social need of interest for SII is children in out-of-home care. Supporting these
children has the potential for large social impacts in terms of providing secure, supportive, and long-term
home environments that maximise the child’s development opportunities and also reducing costs
associated to institutional care (public and private). Table 5.3 presents rates of "looked after" children per
1 000 children aged 11 to 15 and shows that Italy and France have almost twice as many children in foster
or child homes than the OECD average. Examples of SIBs already at work in this area, in the case of
adoption in the United Kingdom and support for "looked after" children in Australia, however it must be
stressed that care for the most vulnerable children should prioritise quality of placement over quantity of
placements, and be carefully monitored for children’s living standards following placement.
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