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Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Government
England
Questions from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities:
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What factors and conditions increase/decrease the chance of successful community-led initiatives (including those which seek to strengthen social infrastructure and social capital) in areas of high deprivation. What makes some areas with the same socio-economics and demographics achieve different outcomes?
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 2022
society
community-led initiatives
social infrastructure
social capital
deprivation
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What might a new more effective/efficient approach or dynamic between central government, local authorities and other partners (including communities/residents themselves) look like, and how could this help to improve specific outcomes in a place?
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 2022
government
local authorities
communities
society
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What can we learn from local authority social cohesion strategies about what works to counter-extremism, promote greater community resilience, tolerance and trust? And what benefits does this bring to a place?
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 2022
society
community resilience
counter-extremism
social cohesion
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How can government (central and local government) systems and processes work more effectively, to build a more integrated and socially cohesive society
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 2022
government
society
social cohesion
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What does institutional and departmental data show in terms of patterns in, and potential causes of, disparities in service use between different groups?
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 2022
society
data
disparities
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What are the factors which make integration and cohesion mutually beneficial? And what community capacity/development is most effective to support that?
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 2022
society
integration
cohesion
community capacity
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What works in ensuring that policies are truly inclusive for all parts of a community or place? And how do we shape our interventions to address the different priorities from place to place, or between groups – e.g. health, transport, jobs, education etc?
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 2022
inclusion
community
policies
health
transport
jobs
education
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What should be the role of communities in the local devolution agenda? What does the evidence suggest works? Does community involvement in public service delivery at the local tier increase efficiency or effectiveness in achieving public value outcomes?
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 2022
devolution
community involvement
public service delivery
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How can we better assess the benefits of an electoral system that is less vulnerable to fraud e.g. in terms of increased trust in government at all levels?
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 2022
electoral systems
government
trust
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How can we ensure an elections and registration system that is accessible for all, and maintains integrity, public confidence and trust through minimal potential for fraud?
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 2022
elections
registration
integrity
public confidence
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What specific measures would most increase efficiency in electoral registration for administrators?
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 2022
electoral systems
efficiency
inclusion
fairness
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Local democracy
What does ‘good’ look like for engagement of citizens in the performance and accountability of their local authority? What methods and approaches work best and what can we do to improve citizen engagement?”
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 2022
citizen engagement
local authority
public services
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Local democracy
What does the evidence show about stability or changes in the population’s identification with local democratic institutions and the strength of their democratic engagement? How has that changed during the pandemic and how is it likely to change in the wider context over the next few years? What does the international evidence show, given the different governance structures?
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 2022
democracy
governance
population
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Devolution
What work has already been done to bring together evidence and analysis comparing impact of policy variation in different policy areas across the UK?
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 2022
policy
evidence
analysis
UK
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Devolution
What can we learn from best practice in public service delivery from across the UK?
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 2022
public services
government
policy
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Devolution
What is the evidence on which decision making structures (at which geographies) work best to deliver effective public services to citizens and level up communities?
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 2022
public services
decision making
level up communities
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Devolution
What are the characteristics of public services that should be devolved to the local tier while strengthening local accountability, and which are best delivered at the national level? What can we learn from international comparisons?
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 2022
public services
local government
international comparisons
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Governance and leadership
What does a directly-elected mayor in England need in order to be most effective? Does this differ depending on whether the mayor is of an individual local authority or a combined authority in England?
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 2022
politics
local government
directly-elected mayors
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Governance and leadership
How representative are existing governance structures (elected and appointed) of the communities they seek to represent, and what are the impacts of that? What are the barriers and enablers of good representation of communities in their governance structures?
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 2022
governance
representation
communities
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Performance and efficiency
What interventions effectively incentivise and support local councils in England to improve performance?
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 2022
public services
local councils
performance
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