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Featured Publication - Spending on parks and neighbourhood services in Scotland

Spending on parks and neighbourhood services in Scotland

This is a report about what has happened to spending on parks and open spaces (“parks”) by Scottish local authorities. To provide context, the report also looks at spending on the wider group of local authority neighbourhood services - the services t…

  • Published: 17th Jun 2020
  • Authors: Josh Holden, Peter Kenway
  • Category: Local Government
Featured Publication - Neighbourhood services and sustainable local government

Neighbourhood services and sustainable local government

This report builds an argument for a sustained increase in local government spending on neighbourhood services, supported by an analysis of how that increase might be distributed across the 70 or so different services. Grouped under the broad heading…

  • Published: 31st Jul 2019
  • Authors: Josh Holden, Peter Kenway
  • Category: Local Government
Featured Publication - Hollowed out: The impact of financial localisation on neighbourhood services

Hollowed out: The impact of financial localisation on neighbourhood services

This report considers the prospects for the ‘neighbourhood services’ provided by local government. Neighbourhood services are mainly those provided by local government apart from social care and education, that is: highways and transportation; enviro…

  • Published: 24th Oct 2018
  • Authors: Peter Kenway, Carla Ayrton
  • Category: Local Government
Featured Publication - Devolution within Northern Ireland

Devolution within Northern Ireland

This report examines evidence for an extension of the responsibilities of local government in Northern Ireland (NI) through devolution from Stormont. Its context is a drive towards greater power for cities and regions across the UK, the absence of a …

  • Published: 21st Jun 2018
  • Authors: Peter Kenway, Issy Petrie
  • Category: Local Government
Featured Publication - Redefining neighbourhoods: A future beyond austerity?

Redefining neighbourhoods: A future beyond austerity?

Neighbourhood services are universal services. The public sees them as the core function of local government. Since 2010/11, neighbourhood services have been the hardest hit of all local government services, taking a shrinking share of a shrinking b…

  • Published: 25th Apr 2017
  • Authors: Karen Barker, Peter Kenway
  • Category: Local Government

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