Data Services and Monitoring and Evaluation
Monitoring and evaluation are of critical importance to the Towns Fund, helping you to not only understand and communicate the difference that your projects have made but also in terms of learning lessons around what has worked and why to inform future interventions and investment. This service will help you think through both the data you should use to monitor and evaluate your programmes as well as the range of different evaluation methodologies you should consider. Having worked closely with DLUHC in the development of the Towns Fund Monitoring and Evaluation framework, the type of support we can offer includes:
tools and training in various methods of baselining, data analytics and evaluation
‘health checks’ on your current plans in relation to monitoring and evaluation
learning bursts, workshops and seminars in relation to monitoring and evaluation designed and delivered online
advice around how monitoring and evaluation can be used to support engagement with your Town Board and wider local stakeholders
Service Lead: Rob Turner
Rob plays a lead role in Grant Thornton's Public Services consulting team. He brings particular expertise in the analysis of large quantitative and qualitative data, with the explicit purpose of deriving intelligent insight to inform service delivery, make the case for investment and to drive performance improvement.
Rob has led major studies for Central Government (e.g. Evaluation of the 2012 Olympic Games Legacy, Review of the UK Steel Industry, Delivery of the Growth Accelerator and Manufacturing Advisory Services) as well as extensive work at the local and sub-regional level (e.g. Greater Brighton Devolution Deal, Heart of South West LEP Productivity Plan, Economic Appraisal of a new university in Milton Keynes and an analysis of the functional economic area of Humber LEP). Rob leads the delivery of our proprietary analytics platforms Place Analytics, CFO Insights and Supply Chain Insights.
These tools are used by over 100 local authorities in England and help to underpin the consulting work we deliver in the public sector. Alongside this, Rob has authored much of Grant Thornton’s thought leadership around places including the Sustainable Growth Index and a recent report for the County Council Network on place-based growth.
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