A guide to support Value for Money (VfM) analysis for public managers

CIPFA report on VfM analysis for public managers

Summary

This guide complements the separately published VfM toolkit. Both are the result of a collaborative project between CIPFA and the Government Outcomes Lab (GO Lab).

Format

PDF

Published

Aug

Author

CIPFA

FREE

Funded by the Engagement Fellowship grant from the University of Oxford’s Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF), this guide describes what VfM represents in public provision of social services, with a special focus on outcome-based contracts (OBCs), and introduces the toolkit, which is a step-by-step and structured framework for conducting a VfM assessment.