What is the evidence on how local government spending translates into outcomes? And what drives better, more accountable, public services?
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:
Research fields
Related UKRI funded projects
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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
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on developing tools and guides for councils addressing operational challenges of reduced public spending, which partially relates to the question on local government spending outcomes.
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What Works Scotland Centre
What Works Scotland will be a collaborative centre bringing together staff from the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, other academics and key non-academic partners. Its aim is to support the use of evidence to plan ...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project fully answers the question and the authors have the necessary expertise.
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Improving public funding allocations to reduce geographical inequalities
The aim of this project is to examine how the UK Government can create an improved public funding allocation system in England to drive forward Levelling Up. This project will contribute to the Government's policy goal t...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project specifically aims to examine how public funding allocation can drive forward Levelling Up and provide actionable lessons for policy reform.