The Centre acted as an “external challenger” to Darlington Council’s Best Value review on regeneration services.

The Centre is the procurement and contracts adviser to the Stonebridge Tenants Advancement Committee (STAC) for the regeneration of the Stonebridge Housing Action Trust.

The Centre has commenced a national two year research project of strategic partnerships in local government. It will focus on eight case study authorities – six which have outsourced services and two which have developed in-house improvement programnmes.

In autumn 2000, Salford City Council considered the possible outsourcing of financial and legal services. Although the Cabinet concluded that much of the potential savings from outsourcing financial services could be achieved by reorganisation, further work was carried out on four options.

Report commissioned by Bradford UNISON critically examining the scale of city council’s “change programme”.

The third report written by the Centre for the Residents Action Group for the Elderly (RAGE) and Birmingham UNISON focusses on the relationship between the proposed privatisation of residential care, race and gender implications and Best Value.

A critique of the Outline Business Case for the Newcastle-North Tyneside Street lighting PFI project.

A new report from the Sheffield based Centre for Public Services investigates the impact of the growing trend of using Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) and Public Private Partnerships (PPP) to fund public services.

A report by the Centre concerning research conducted for Manchester City Council on combining environmental sustainability and Best Value.

The Centre recently completed an equality audit for the Department of Health, Social Services & Public Safety in Northern Ireland.