The pandemic has hit public services hard, creating backlogs - from children missing out on school lessons, to cancelled hospital operations and unheard court cases – and leaving local authorities facing budget shortfalls.

But as the government focuses on post-pandemic economic recovery, its priority is to ‘level up’ parts of the country which have fallen behind in terms of economic growth, opportunity, and wellbeing. With limited resources, how can public services both address backlogs and ‘level up’? Has the pandemic made levelling up harder for public services? How, if at all, can public services contribute to levelling up? What should the government do to help them both catch-up and level-up?

To discuss these questions and more, the IfG was delighted to host an expert panel including:

Baroness Armstrong, Chair of the House of Lords Public Services Committee
Saffron Cordery, Deputy Chief Executive of NHS Providers
Georgina Cox, Partner at PA Consulting
Rachel Wolf, Founding Partner at Public First and former Education and Innovation Adviser to David Cameron.

The event was chaired by Graham Atkins, Associate Director at the Institute for Government.

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We would like to thank PA Consulting for kindly supporting this event.

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