Issue(s) Process and operations management Parent department Cabinet Office Related documents Follow-up: grants to the Big Society Network and the Society Network Foundation (Nov 2014) Government Grant Services (Jul 2014) | Grants are a huge area of government spend, and the Cabinet Office established the Grants Efficiency Programme to improve both the efficiency and effectiveness of using this funding mechanism. We published our work on grants management in 2014 and worked very closely with the Cabinet Office, sharing examples of our data analysis and our emerging findings.
| Impact: Partly because of our focus and collaborative approach, the Cabinet Office adjusted their programme to consider the appropriateness of grants as a funding mechanism as well as the efficiency of grant processing. The Cabinet Office also plans to design a technology solution to improve the efficiency of processing certain types of grant and to collate management information. Our findings and recommendations were heavily referenced in the business case for this development. |