Scope support commitment to work with local areas to redesign public services to deliver better outcomes and better value for money for the public. Robust evidence that supports better decision-making is critical to achieving this objective. Scope can assist you to assess and evaluate service transformation proposals in a systematic way in order to better understand economic and public benefits, and how these are apportioned across local organisations and communities. Scope can help enable policy makers to better understand the importance of evidenced-based decisions, including the underlying information requirements and the outputs of cost benefit analyses. The guidance is based on HM Treasury’s Green Book approach to appraisal and Better Business Cases guidance, which are mandatory government guidance for those preparing proposals to spend money devolved from Parliament.

