What interventions effectively incentivise and support local councils in England to improve performance?
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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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 offering specialist services and advocacy for councils addressing operational challenges, which could partially support local councils in England to improve performance.
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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 fully answers the question and the authors have the necessary expertise.
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Research Facilitator (for Local Government) - Catherine Staite
Local government plays a substantial role in the wellbeing of economy and society in the United Kingdom. 433 local authorities in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales employ almost 1.7 million people delivering ...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project does not answer the question, but the authors have the necessary expertise.