Big Picture: Restoring trust in the public sector through outcome-based partnerships: transparency, relationality and adaptation

This year over half of the world’s population are heading to the polls for elections, yet governments are facing a crisis of confidence from their citizens. Restoring this trust requires governments to deliver results against a backdrop of what is being dubbed a ‘permacrisis’. What can be done to restore faith in the public sector? And what wider lessons might we learn from outcomes-based contracting to build and renew public sector capabilities, collaboration, and culture?

In this session, we will lift our gaze to these broader issues and ask:

• How can an outcomes-focus strengthen government capabilities through value for money and ensured impact of policies such as children's care, health, and homelessness?
  
• How might government meaningfully collaborate with other sectors to improve the delivery of public services?
  
• How might public services be strengthened with preventative spending, enabled through an outcomes-focus?

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