Table 2. Unit costs for non-health resource use.
| Non-health related resource use | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Education | ||||
| Mainstream school or
further education (FE) college |
Per week of
education |
£77 | The Centre for Social Justice (Press release,
2011) |
Cost of mainstream education cited
at £4000 per child per year. This was divided by 52 to give an estimate of weekly rate |
| Learning support unit
(LSU) |
Per week of
education |
£40
(+£77) |
North Lincolnshire Learning Support Unit,
2012 ( http://shareit.yhgfl.net/nlincs /cpd/ ?page_id=2159) |
Cost per session of 1 centre. Assumed
mothers would have at least 1 session per week in addition to regular schooling |
| Pupil referral unit
(PRU) |
Per week of
education |
£346.15 | The Centre for Social Justice (Press release,
2011) |
Cost of PRU education cited at £18,000
per child per year. This was divided by 52 to give an estimate of weekly rate |
| Teenage mums
support unit (TMSU) |
Per week of
education |
£167.50
(+£77) |
Government published information published
online May, 2014 ( https://www.gov.uk/16-to- 19-education-financial-support-for-students) |
Education charged at the same rate
as mainstream schooling. Mothers in a TMSU are eligible for ‘Care to Learn’ funding which provides a bursary of £160-£175 per week (average £167.50) |
| Other supportive services | ||||
| Connexions advisor | Cost per
hour |
£38.50 | Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2013 | Page 217
£847 per 22 hours of a connexions advisors time gives an hourly rate of £38.50 per hour |
| School nurse | Unit of activity | £27 | Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2013 | Average UK unit cost of school based
children’s health services |
| Young people centre/
youth service |
Unit of activity | £17 | The cost of providing street based youth work
in deprived Communities, 2004 (Joseph Rowntree Foundation Report) |
Cost per contact of youth services
project |
| Children’s centre | Unit cost per hour | £64.25 | Cost Effectiveness in Sure Start Local
Programmes: A Synthesis of Local Evaluation Findings, 2005 |
Unit cost of Sure Start children’s centres |
| Child development
centre |
Unit cost
per hour |
£34 | Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2013 | Unit cost for key worker |
| Crèche/ day nursery | Cost per
hour |
£4.28 | Range of current sources, 2014 | Average cost across a range of crèche/
day nursery facilities |
| Toddler group | Unit cost
per hour |
£5 | Unit Costs of Health and Social Care, 2005 | Page 26, Unit cost of toddler group |
| Leaving care services | Cost per
hour |
£20 | Young People Leaving Care: A Study of Costs
and Outcomes, 2006 |
Page 175, Leaving care worker/
personal adviser (per hour of client related activity) |
| Youth offending team | Unit cost
per hour |
£29 | Unit Costs in Criminal Justice
(UCCJ), 2013 |
Page 65, Cost of Youth Offending Team
(YOT) practitioner |
| Social worker | Unit cost
per hour |
£57 | Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2013 | Page 197, Unit cost per hour of social
worker |
| Childcare | ||||
| Crèche/ day nursery
at school or college |
Cost per hour | £4.28 | Range of current sources, 2014 | Average cost across a range of crèche/
day nursery facilities |
| Nursery group at
children’s centre |
Cost per hour | £4.40 | Childcare Costs Survey, 2014 | Page 4, Average UK cost of 25 hours
per week £109.89 which equates to £4.40 per hour |
| Child-minder | Cost per
hour |
£3.99 | Childcare Costs Survey, 2014 | Page 4, Average UK cost of 25 hours
per week £99.77 which equates to £3.99 per hour |
| Any other childcare | Cost per
hour |
£3.82 | Childcare Costs Survey, 2014 | Page 4, Mean cost of all types of
childcare |
| Foster care (weeks) | ||||
| Foster care mother | Unit cost
per week |
£636 | Unit Costs of Health and Social Care, 2013 | Page 88, Unit cost per week of foster
care inclusive of admin and social services |
| Temporary accommodation | ||||
| B&B | Cost per week | £334.95 | Immediate costs to government of loss of
home, 2012 |
Page 4, Average cost per week, UK |
| Teenage parent
accommodation |
Cost per
week |
£151.78 | Young people and teenage parent
accommodation based services and floating support services, 2010 Supported Housing Commissioning Strategy - 2005-2010, 2005 |
Average of 2 sites taken:
Page 4, Average cost per week (Brent, London) Page 29, Average cost per week (Sheffield) |
| Supported
accommodation |
Cost per
week |
£150 | Supported lodgings as a housing option for
young people report, 2008 |
Page 32, Average cost per week, UK |
| Mother and baby
hostel/unit |
Cost per
week |
£230 | Christian Family Concern Mother & Baby Unit,
2014 ( http://www.familyspacecroydon.co.uk/ Contacts /details/christian-family-concern- mother-baby-unit/) |
Actual cost per week at 1 site in London |
| Women’s refuge | Cost per
week |
£421.15 | The Cost of Domestic Violence, 2004 | Page 76, Average of UK women’s
refuges |
| Homeless hostel | Cost per
week |
£107.45 | Immediate costs to government of loss of
home, 2012 |
Page 4, Average cost per week, UK |