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Public Services<br />
We hosted a lecture and published a think piece by<br />
Dr Barry Quirk, one of the UK’s most accomplished local<br />
authority chief executives, on high performing councils.<br />
We produced an analysis of the strategies that <strong>English</strong><br />
councils have developed to cope <strong>with</strong> budget cuts.<br />
Our report concludes that councils in Wales can learn<br />
from experience in England and need to look beyond<br />
short-term cost cutting measures and embrace more<br />
far reaching service transformation.<br />
We published a report by the Chartered Institute of<br />
Public Finance and Accountancy which assesses the<br />
feasibility of comparing council performance across<br />
the UK.<br />
The report identifies common indicators of expenditure<br />
and performance and argues that governments should<br />
work together to develop comparators of overall<br />
council performance.<br />
Working <strong>with</strong> Dr Clive Grace, we provided advice on<br />
how the Welsh Government might improve the use<br />
of Impact Assessments (IAs). Identifying the need to<br />
act on both the structures and the culture surrounding<br />
IAs, the advice recommended a series of steps that the<br />
Government might take to reduce their administrative<br />
burden while also increasing their value.<br />
8 | <strong>PPIW</strong>
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