Funding Systems for Doctors, Schools and Social Landlords

In the past decade there has been a minor revolution in how local services are funded.Those delivering the services now have their own budgets. How these budgets arecalculated – how Whitehall pulls the purse strings – are now central issues in social policy.In a new book, CASE members analyse how these systems were devised, the incentivesthey embody, and how local service providers see them.A striking common theme is the increasing stress over the last century put on geographicalneeds-based equity, including – indeed significantly – under Conservative governments inthe 1980s and 1990s.[...]