ABSTRACT
Chapter 7, titled ‘Local outcomes’, discusses how public value outcomes can be evaluated at the local level. With this in mind, the chapter sets out a local outcomes framework based on seven key aspects, including (1) local identity; (2) local prosperity and flourishing; (3) civil society and governance at the community level; (4) links with the wider world; (5) autonomy and upward influence; (6) constitutional recognition; and (7) mutuality and cohesion. The first five of these are aspects which are inherently local in nature. The remaining two are system-level features which are deemed essential to enabling an effective approach to localism within a broader multi-level context. The framework is used to present an illustrative assessment of recent localism policy in the Cornwall/Isles of Scilly sub-region of south-west England. The framework was inspired by the Comprehensive Area Assessment initiative, which was developed by the UK’s former Audit Commission, and used in England for one year only in 2009–2010.
