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The new Invest to Save Budget (ISB) website is now live. These pages will no longer be updated but they will remain on this site until the end of the year when they will be peranently removed.

For full, current details about the ISB, guidance on the bidding process, and to use our searchable project database please go to www.isb.gov.uk

INVEST TO SAVE BUDGET

Delivering Joined Up Government

Six monthly progress reports are due from existing projects on 30th October and 30th April each year. Click here for more information and to download the report template. Round three winners are required to submit implementation plans by April 30th. Click here for the necessary pro-forma. Please return all forms to the email address below:

invest.save@hm-treasury.gov.uk.

Information about the Invest to Save Budget

The Invest to Save Budget (ISB), itself an example of joint working between the Cabinet Office and the Treasury, was created to bring together two or more public service bodies to deliver services in a joined up, innovative, locally responsive and more efficient fashion.

Thirty three projects were funded in Round 1 and went live from 1^st April 1999. We will publish information on progress of these projects as it becomes available. In addition, there is a direct link to some of these ISB projects being run by the Public Record Office , the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Ordnance Survey.

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Round 4

ISB Round 4 has now officially started. Around £60m is available for projects to be drawn down in 2002-03.

Click here to download the guidance, in format (97K), for the bidding process.

If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here to download.

To apply for funding you must submit an expression of Interest by 29 June 2001. A copy of the pro forma for bids can be downloaded by clicking here.

Round 3

Andrew Smith & Graham Stringer announce ISB Round 3 winners as over 100 innovative Public Service Projects win up to £60 million funding.

Click here for the press release and the list of winners

We have recently published the report commissioned from SQW following their evaluation of ISB round 1. The report covers the ISB in terms of its policy context, its objectives and its management. It goes on to examine how these have been realised through the round one projects, looking particularly at:

Joint working processes
Innovative service delivery
Sustainable effects

The SQW report closes with a series of conclusions and recommendations based on their extensive research. A series of 10 discrete project case studies are also appended.

The report will be of interest to all public sector bodies engaged in partnership working, irrespective of any current engagement with ISB.

As we receive information of other projects held on-line, we will offer a gateway from this site to information on joint working and some of the ways in which these projects are improving delivery of public sector objectives.

Results of the second round of the ISB were announced on 15^th February. Click here to visit the press announcement on the Cabinet office web site. This year, bids were invited from the wider public sector and, as well as central government partnerships, this year's winners include partnerships led by local authorities from across the country. One hundred and four projects were successful at this round and will continue to explore and deliver the themes of joined up services which are responsive to the needs of the public. The brief pen portraits for these projects show the range of innovative ideas that Invest to Save Budget partnerships are bringing to public sector service delivery.

Background to Invest to Save

The Government has stated its intention to deliver public services in a more integrated and coordinated way, and the Invest to Save Budget will encourage public sector bodies to work more closely together and identify projects which would not otherwise go ahead. By providing more assistance towards the cost of innovative projects, which may need upfront funding not otherwise available, the ISB will seek to realise the gains which they can offer in terms of efficiency savings and/or benefits to the public. ISB is a practical example of the Government's commitment to Modernise Government.

All projects meet the following overarching objectives for the ISB:

to increase the extent of joint working between different parts of government;
to identify innovative ways of delivering public services which serve the Better Government agenda; and
to reduce the cost of delivering public services and/or improve the quality and cost effectiveness of services delivered to the public.