What can we learn from best practice in public service delivery from across the UK?
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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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 focuses on promoting the systematic use of evidence in the design, reform, and delivery of public services, which aligns with the question about best practices in public service delivery.
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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 practical tools and guides for councils addressing operational challenges of reduced public spending, which is partially relevant to understanding best practices in public service delivery.
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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 aims to facilitate policy learning between countries and analyze the challenges of performance assessment in public services, which partially aligns with the question about best practices in public service delivery.