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  1. Police accountability: Landscape review

    Report Value for money

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    The new policing oversight framework has been in place for a year but already there are gaps in the system with the potential to undermine accountability both to the Home Office and the public.

  2. The Regional Growth Fund

    Report Value for money

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    The £1.4 billion funding could result in 41,000 extra full-time equivalent private sector jobs but thousands more could have been created from the same resources.

  3. Out-of-hours GP services in England

    Report Value for money

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    Although some areas of the NHS in England are achieving value for money for out-of-hours GP services, this is not the case across the board.

  4. Managing the transition to the reformed health system

    Report Value for money

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    Although new organisations set up as part of the reformed health system were ready to start functioning on time, the transition to the system is not yet complete.

  5. Monitor: Regulating NHS foundation trusts

    Report Value for money

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    Monitor has achieved value for money in regulating NHS foundation trusts, and has generally been effective in helping trusts in difficulty to improve.

  6. Programmes to help families facing multiple challenges

    Report Value for money

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    Two government programmes aiming to help families with multiple challenges, such as unemployment and anti-social behaviour, are starting to provide benefits but considerable challenges remain.

  7. Local government in 2019: a pivotal year

    Insight Opinion

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    2019 will be a pivotal year for local government in England. Numerous difficult and open-ended questions need rapid resolution, at a time when government focus and capacity is directed elsewhere. Drawing on a number of our recent reports, here I explore some of the challenges facing the sector, from budget cuts and growing social care […]

  8. Local government finance in the pandemic

    Press release

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    This report examines whether the government secured financial sustainability across the local authority sector during COVID-19.

  9. Local authority governance

    Press release

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    Our report examines whether local governance arrangements provide assurance that local authority spending achieves value and authorities are financially sustainable

  10. Local auditor reporting in England 2018

    Press release

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    The number of NHS and local government bodies with weaknesses in their arrangements for delivering value for money is increasing.

  11. The health and social care interface

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    This ‘think piece’ draws on our past work highlighting the barriers that prevent health and social care services working together effectively, examples of joint working and the move towards services centred on the needs of the individual, to inform the ongoing debate about the future of health and social care in England.