What lessons need to be learned about the respective roles and contributions of the public, private and third sectors in the design and delivery of local 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: [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:
Research fields
Related UKRI funded projects
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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
Lead research organisation: University of Glasgow
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on the design and delivery of public services, which directly addresses the question.
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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
Why might this be relevant?
The project investigates alternative governance and contracting practices in public service delivery, which is relevant to the question.
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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
Lead research organisation: DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on developing tools and guides for councils addressing operational challenges of reduced public spending, which partially addresses the question about the roles and contributions of different sectors in public service delivery.