Tag: Place-based budgets

How can local systems move beyond fragmented commissioning to deliver better outcomes for people and communities? Join New Local network colleagues alongside Bridges Outcomes Partnerships for a strategic workshop exploring […]

20th July, 2026

Commissioning • Outcomes focused • Place-based budgets

Across policy and practice there is growing energy and momentum around the idea of place-based public service budgets. At its core this approach is about identifying, coordinating and pooling existing […]

20th March, 2025

Place building • Place-based budgets • Strategy and leadership • Total Place

As the Government’s agenda for local government, devolution and public services takes shape, a ‘new local’ is emerging, built on the principles of power, prevention and place.

27th January, 2025

Community Power • Local government • Place-based budgets • Politics • Prevention • Public Services

With the Autumn Budget in sight, Former Secretary of State John Denham and New Local’s Jessica Studdert make the case for Total Place 2.0.

9th September, 2024

Devolution and reorganisation • Local government finance • Place-based budgets • Political reform • Public Services • Total Place

As she steps into an interim CEO role, Jessica Studdert puts forward three proposals for the next government, at a critical time for councils.

13th May, 2024

Central government • Devolution • Local government • Local government finance • Place-based budgets • Total Place

Join us for this member only Lunch and Learn session. New Local’s recent policy paper Place-based Public Service Budgets set out a case for ensuring better value for public money […]

28th March, 2024

Place-based budgets • Research Reports • Total Place

A former secretary of state is calling for Total Place style pooled budgets as the best use of public spending when there is no financial quick fix for public services. […]

31st January, 2024

Community engagement • Devolution and reorganisation • Health and social care • Local government • Local government finance • Place-based budgets • Public Services

The best policy that almost was? Former Secretary of State John Denham & New Local's Jessica Studdert discuss their new paper calling for a come-back for place-based budgeting as we saw in the Total Place pilots of 13 years...

31st January, 2024

Devolution and reorganisation • Local government finance • Place-based budgets • Political reform • Total Place

This report sets out a new approach to public service investment and reform in England. By identifying all public money spent within a local area, and enabling it to be used more flexibly, spending could be more closely aligned...

31st January, 2024

Budgeting • Central government • Community Power • Health and social care • Local government • Local government finance • Place-based budgets • Public Services