1 January 2017

Faulty by design. The state of public-service commissioning

Faulty by design. The state of public-service commissioning
Reform January 2017
  • The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the success of current approaches to commissioning by central government, local authorities and commissioning bodies. It uses interviews, a literature review and evaluation of the publicly available data.
  • This paper looks at three critical and interdependent areas of commissioning - outcomes based commissioning, fragmentation of commissioning within and across policy areas and the localisation agenda.