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Encourage
innovation and partnership throughout the public sector, in order
to improve the quality and cost effectiveness of public services.
The
Invest to Save Budget (ISB) is a joint Treasury/Cabinet Office initiative
with an aim to create sustainable improvements in the capacity to
deliver public services in a more joined up manner. A key principle
of the ISB programme is that investment is provided in return for
reform.
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ISB REVIEW: The Review has attempted to evaluate
the difference the ISB has made in the following areas:
- What
lessons have been learned from encouraging innovation, risk and
joint working within the public sector;
- Whether
these lessons have enabled the identification of effective models
of service delivery;
- How
far these delivery models have been disseminated and more widely
adopted;
- Whether
the long-term efficiencies in public service delivery and the
value for money (VFM) of projects funded by ISB have been successfully
identified.
The
Review is divided into two distinct themes:
- The
ISB as an effective mechanism for investing in public service
innovation. The Review looks at whether the ISB model is an exemplar
grant funding scheme and identifies the positives and negatives
of the processes in place and how effective they have been in
gathering the lessons learned.
- Analysis
of the lessons learned for public service delivery and evidence
of the value for money/efficiencies generated. This considers:
- The
ISB portfolio in terms of how innovation has benefited which
services/policy areas
- How
far successful approaches have been mainstreamed
- An
assessment of the value for money of the scheme
- What
lessons have been learned in relation to partnership working
The
extent to which the ISB has promoted more calculated risk
taking in government
A
Review of the Invest to Save Budget: An Innovation Fund for Public
Services
ISB
Projects by Policy Area
ISB
Projects by Client
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Useful Links
National Audit Office - Audit Report on the ISB Programme
http://www.nao.gov.uk/pn/02-03/020350.htm
Government Funding http://www.governmentfunding.org.uk
Future
Builders - Voluntary Sector
http://www.futurebuilders-england.org.uk/
Compact http://www.thecompact.org.uk/
StartHere http://www.StartHere.org
Please Note: ISB is not
responsible for the content or availability of external web sites.
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05/02/08 ISB Future - To date all ISB funds have been spent
and it is not known at this stage, but is unlikely, that there will
be funding for further rounds of ISB funding
24/07/07
ISB REVIEW: A review of the ISB is published today. Almost
a decade after the introduction of the ISB, the time is right to
review the fund to consider whether it has been a successful mechanism
for supporting innovation in public service delivery and to identify
what has been learned from the projects within the ISB portfolio.
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Portfolio
by Policy
Portfolio by Client
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An
Invest to Save Budget (ISB) Conference
took place at the Treasury in London on 15 June 2006 with an address
from Stephen Timms the Chief Secretary to the Treasury. The event
focussed on projects and partnerships involving the third sector
and the aim was to get feedback on the contribution the ISB has
made to understanding the role of the sector in the delivery of
public services within local communities. This was an interesting
and diverse conference, which offered the chance for people to meet
who are involved in innovation right across public and third sector
organisations, and learn lessons from the projects being presented.
Details
of Stephen Timms former Chief Secretary to the Treasury Speech
Ideas into Action'
The Sixth ISB Conference will be
held on 18th March 2004 at The Brewey, Chiswell Street, London.
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