I think it's really important to assess the situation and analyze the situation to make sure that it makes sense from a financial perspective and that it's very likely to have a strong positive business case from a financial standpoint. But the actual outcome is impactful and has a very valuable outcome. If you put those together, for me, that's a compelling business case. That's one primary area.
I think another area is to be very careful in the performance measurement and to know and understand that if kids are in school there are a variety of positive benefits, financially and otherwise, that really cut across the different levels of government and the different levels of the community. So work hard to appreciate all of those cost savings and not look at the somewhat artificial boundaries that we place between different organizations and different departments, even within the same government.
I think another key success factor is to right-size the initiative and to pick a sample population where you can really have a higher level of confidence that the program that is funded is having that positive effect, or not, and that the relationship isn't tenuous. Those are some of the things.
I think it's important, too, that the public sector sponsor be knowledgeable in this are before it goes out and that it have skills and capacity internally to do these types of things and to be properly advised as to how best to structure, operate, and also assess the outcomes at the end of the day and report back, for full transparency.