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: Lesley.Smith@levellingup.gov.uk and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: psChiefScientificAdviser@levellingup.gov.uk.
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Topics
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
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
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Responding to complex public contracting failures: alternative models for coordinating and stewarding public service delivery
Public-private partnerships and contracted delivery arrangements for public services are ubiquitous across developed economies and yet their performance and value are increasingly questioned. High-profile failures, ineff...
Funded by: UKRI FLF
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Why might this be relevant?
Partially answers the question by addressing public contracting practices and accountability, but does not specifically focus on devolution or centralization.