Tag: Place-Based Public Service Reform

‘If you were going to design English local government from scratch, you wouldn’t have come up with this.’ Versions of this observation will be familiar to many in and around the sector relating to the split between district and...

It’s been a year since Labour came into power, bringing with them a commitment to a different way of ‘doing’ government centred around five missions for national renewal.  One year on, and the policy community is reflecting on what...

Responding to Government announcements today, Place-Based Public Service Budgets report co-authors, New Local Chief Executive Jessica Studdert and Professorial Research Fellow at Southampton University John Denham, said: “We are pleased to see Total Place principles at the heart of two major...

New Local is working in partnership with Inner Circle Consulting on a practical research project on mission-led local government. Local governments (councils and combined authorities) are pioneering new forms of mission-led statecraft. Missions became a more prominent feature of...