Improving Public Services

publication 26 June 2019
At the Tipping Point: Welsh Local Government and Austerity
Professor James Downe and Emma Taylor-Collins

This report outlines Welsh councils’ responses to austerity, drawing on interviews with Welsh council leaders, chief executives, finance directors, and external stakeholders. Councils have responded...

publication 13 March 2019
Sustainable Public Procurement
Mair Bell

What is meant by sustainable public procurement, the key approaches to achieving it, and how these can be implemented

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Press Releases 25 October 2018
Prevention better than cure for youth homelessness, finds new report
The WCPP worked with homelessness experts from Canada on the project
Projects
Increasing the Impact of the What Works Network across the UK
The Wales Centre for Public Policy has worked with What Works Scotland, Queen’s University Belfast, the Alliance for Useful Evidence and a range of...
Commentary 26 July 2018
Learning the lessons from Carillion – thoughts from our panel discussion
A report back from our recent breakfast event
Publications 21 June 2018
Commissions and their Role in Public Policy
Bringing together evidence and expert perspectives on the factors that make policy commissions successful
Press Releases 21 June 2018
Blueprint for Welsh policy commissions supplied by new expert report
Draws on both the insights of previous commission leaders and relevant academic research
Press Releases 14 June 2018
Remove barriers to unlock potential of NHS schemes, says WCPP report
Resource constraints and the perception of staff roles are limiting the impact of three schemes
Projects
Rural Poverty in Wales
The Welsh Government has identified Rural Poverty as a priority area for evidence, and our own preliminary analysis of existing research confirmed that there is...
Commentary 12 June 2018
Public Service Boards and wellbeing
Mair Bell writes on the developing wellbeing plans, and how the WCPP can support PSBs