Frontiers Enablement Model

11. Costs of Provision

Studies show that this complete approach to teaching young people is cost-effective when compared to the alternatives. There are a range of different funding streams available for such provision.

See the Cost Calculator and Cost Calculator Summary for more details.

Costs - financial and social

Every year in the UK, around 10,000 secondary school children are excluded from school, and over a million truant. The social effects of this are enormous.

The following statistics are taken from recent Mori polls, Home Office research and a recent report by the New Philanthropy Capital.

Effects of exclusion & truancy:

• Truants and excluded children are more than twice as more likely to be sexually active, smoke, drink and take drugs
• Excluded children have a 3 times greater risk of contracting depression
• The average persistent truant costs £44,400 to society
• The total costs of persistent truants amounts to £800 million per annum

Violence, truancy & exclusion:

• Over half of excluded schoolchildren admit to carrying a knife
• Truants are more than twice as likely to commit crimes than non-truants

• The annual cost of imprisonment is around £50,000
• An Audit Commission study based on a real boy who had served intensive community sentences and two six-month periods in custody by age 16, calculated that a mentoring-based strategy, similar to that provided at Frontiers would cost nearly four times less - £42,000 compared to £154,000. The analysis was based solely on the costs incurred to statutory agencies and did not factor in the wider costs of the youngster's involvement in crime and the impact on his family and others.
  The study suggests that every pound spent on social support for children who enter the criminal justice system at an early age could save at least £3 in the future.

• Students’attendance increased from 20% at school to 90% at Frontiers
• We work with around 1,000 young people every year.
• Most of our students have moved from being disengaged & unclear what direction to take, to being engaged and empowered, going on to further education or satisfying employment.
• Students have on the whole ceased carrying weapons and begun to engage more fruitfully with their community

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