What has the pandemic taught us are the necessary pre-conditions for effective devolution of a public service to the local tier? Within that, what has the pandemic taught us about how accountability, such as managing public money, should be managed? And where does the evidence show that centralisation is more appropriate?
Background
The questions that will help us to grow our understanding to support the recovery from the pandemic, and to inform the medium and long term strategy for ‘living with COVID’, in areas relevant to DLUHC responsibilities.
Next steps
The lead contacts are: Lesley Smith, Senior Principal Research Officer, Analysis, Research and Co-ordination Unit, Analysis and Data Directorate: [email protected] and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: [email protected].
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
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Related UKRI funded projects
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COVID-19 and councils' finances: understanding risks and impacts and improving policy
Councils are on the front line of the coronavirus crisis, being responsible for key services like social care and homelessness prevention and facing revenues falling due to lockdown. Government has provided them with bil...
Funded by: COVID
Lead research organisation: Institute for Fiscal Studies
Why might this be relevant?
The project analyzes the financial risks facing different councils and their potential financial resilience, which is relevant to understanding how accountability, such as managing public money, should be managed during the pandemic.
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The governance of multi-sector public service delivery networks.
The use of market-inspired instruments for steering public service delivery has become ubiquitous across developed economies and yet the experience with contracting for complex services suggests that we are still in the ...
Funded by: UKRI FLF
Lead research organisation: University of Oxford
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COVID and the UK nations' fiscal frameworks: impacts, performance and lessons
The UK's devolved governments (UKDGs) are responsible for much of the COVID-19 response for 10.5 million people. But they have raised concerns that the funding frameworks in which they operate are constraining their abil...
Funded by: COVID
Lead research organisation: University of Strathclyde
Why might this be relevant?
The project examines the fiscal frameworks of the devolved governments in response to the COVID-19 crisis, which partially addresses the question about the necessary pre-conditions for effective devolution of a public service to the local tier during the pandemic.