What is the role of transparency and data in driving high quality local public services? What is the evidence of the difference they can make, and what are the resourcing implications?
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:
Related UKRI funded projects
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Information Sharing in Policy and Practice: What needs to be shared (or not shared) when we share information?
This proposal responds to the urgent challenges posed by the uses of information in governing and delivering public services. Disasters and tragedies have been repeatedly attributed - at least in part - to the failure of...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project partially answers the question by discussing the challenges of information sharing in governing and delivering public services, but does not provide evidence of the difference transparency and data can make or the resourcing implications.
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Accountability, Efficiency, Improvement and Change in UK Local Public Services: The Role of Benchmarking and External Performance Assessment
The knowledge exchange will facilitate the development of a network of policy makers and practitioners who will work with social science researchers to analyse and respond to the challenges of performance assessment in p...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project partially answers the question by examining the role of benchmarking and external performance assessment in UK local public services, but does not provide evidence of the difference transparency and data can make or the resourcing implications.
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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 partially answers the question by exploring the use of evidence in planning and delivering sustained and transformative change in Scottish public services, but does not provide evidence of the difference transparency and data can make or the resourcing implications.