Counting Cumbria asks how much money in total is going into a place? how effective is this spending in achieving what we want on the ground? could we get more from the public pound if its spending was differently organised and directed?

These are questions which the taxpaying public and the recipients of services have a strong interest in, more so in hard times. They are difficult to answer, but they are central to the work of public, voluntary and private sector organisations collaborating to make their place better. Counting Cumbria set out to begin to answer these difficult questions. The project was based in Cumbria because in 2007 the partnership organisations there declared a shared determination to improve more rapidly the lives of people living in the county

Counting Cumbria is the companion report to Calling Cumbria. The Local Government Association and the Improvement and Development Agency joined with the Leadership Centre for Local Government in commissioning this work

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