PLACE SURVEYS 2008

The Local Government White Paper – Strong and Prosperous Communities emphasises a new focus on improving outcomes for local people and places – rather than on processes, institutions and inputs. It recognises that no single organisation can achieve success on the complex issues of improving public health, reducing poverty, tackling crime or sustainable economic development.

The challenges are too complex and the needs often too local for all solutions to be imposed from the centre. Everywhere, solutions will need effective co-operation.

Central to this is the importance of capturing local people’s views, experiences and perceptions, so that the solutions for an area can reflect local views and preferences. More than this, it is vital to track people’s changing perceptions, as a way of determining whether interventions made in an area result in the right outcomes for local people – ie do people feel happier, healthier, safer? The Place Survey is a way of achieving this.

The Place Survey will supply the data by which a number of national indicators will be measured. The national indicators will measure how well Government’s priorities, as set out in the Comprehensive Spending Review, are being delivered by local government and local government partnerships over the next three years. They form an important part of the new, streamlined local performance framework.
CN Research has over 20 years of extensive experience working within local government  and has undertaken many surveys for local authorities using the postal methodologies that are required in the Place surveys. The predecessor of Place was the General Best Value Surveys and CN Research has undertaken these surveys since their inception in 2001.
If you would like further information and a quote on your upcoming Place survey for 2008 then please contact either Martin Simpson or Lynne Wild.

Martin.simpson@cnresearch.co.uk
Lynne.wild@cnresearch.co.uk

Or Tel: 01228 612735/612272