Improving Public Services

Developing joined-up approaches to public service delivery has been at the heart of the Government approach to developing sustainable and lasting improvements in delivering outcomes. In a number of cases, this has required a range of agencies to work together in partnership, for example Safer Schools Partnerships which focus on crime and anti-social behaviour in educational environments. The various partnerships introduced by the Government have brought together different agencies to tackle shared problems and to address the issues that face our communities in a way that supports improved delivery of public services, including crime and community safety. The Government has worked to weave partnership working into the fabric of service delivery in communities and to enable agencies to recognise and then realise the benefits that working together brings.

However, there is more to do to support partnership effectiveness across the range of services provided in communities and for the Home Office, this means improving the delivery of services to tackle crime and disorder and to reduce the fear of crime. From speaking to our delivery partners, we know they want to increase their effectiveness and improve their performance in delivering outcomes to communities. Communities want to see strong local services and to see the differences that public agencies, working together, make to their lives. Because of this, we are committed to a broad range of policies that will support changes in the way in which partners work together to address issues concerning local communities.