IRIS Consulting Press Release: January 2009

This research will look explicitly at answering the following questions:

o What has been the experience of other Government Departments that have deployed a local / regional decision-making model?
o At which level has decision-making been devolved?
o How have budgets been devolved to different levels? To what level – national / regional / local / service user level?
o Do decision-makers hold the budgets for the services?
o How have local commissioners delivered outcomes jointly with other partners?
o What level of freedom in decision-making has been afforded to the local / regional levels?
o How has the decision-making process been regulated?
o What international evidence is there on the applicability of devolved decision-making to offender management services?

The research is intended to feed into the Commissioning Strategy and will critically assess the use of devolved decision-making in the commissioning process across Government, providing an over-arching rationale for application to parts of the services run by the Ministry of Justice.

The IRIS Consulting team carrying out the research are:

•  John Harvey – project director
•  Robin Gray
•  Alan Riddell
•  Rodney Anderson
•  Tony Shepherd

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