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 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
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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
Publications 11 June 2018
What Works in Tackling Rural Poverty: An Evidence Review of Interventions to Improve Access to Services
The Welsh Government has supported a wide range of programmes to address rural poverty and yet recent estimates suggest that almost a quarter of the...
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A better way forward for Welsh procurement: Learning lessons from Carillion
4 July 2018
What can we learn from the collapse of Carillion to help us improve public procurement and outsourcing in Wales?
Projects
Evidence for Welsh Public Service Leaders on Public Procurement
Mobilising the power of procurement is a growing area of interest. The Welsh public sector spends approximately £6 billion annually on goods, services and works, however...
Projects
Future of Work in Wales
In his speech to the 2016 Labour Party conference the First Minister of Wales, Rt Hon Carwyn Jones, called for a “deep and thorough investigation into...
Projects
Improving Health and Employment Outcomes
Reviewing how to integrate health and employment services effectively