How should local authority resilience, capacity, capability and financial sustainability be defined and measured? How have they changed over time?

Background

Further building our evidence and understanding on which public services, delivered at which level of government, deliver greatest public value and what we can learn from different policy approaches taken across the UK.

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:

DLUHC Areas of research interest GOVUK

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    The project focuses on community empowerment and its impact on citizen-state relationships, which is not directly related to the question of local authority resilience, capacity, capability, and financial sustainability.

  • De Montfort University And Association for Public Service Excellence

    To develop practical tools and guides to be able to offer specialist services to, and advocacy for, councils addressing the operational challenges of reduced public spending....

    Funded by: Innovate UK

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    Why might this be relevant?

    The project aims to develop practical tools and guides for councils addressing the operational challenges of reduced public spending, which is not directly related to the question of how local authority resilience, capacity, capability, and financial sustainability should be defined and measured.

  • Improving funding allocation to places for Levelling Up

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    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Birmingham

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