Comparative Study on the policy and social conditions underpinning the sustainability of third sector in the UK and Japan

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380784
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Rikkyo University
• Principal Investigator: HARADA Kohki 立教大学, コミュニティ福祉学部, 教授 (20340416)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): ODAKA Kendo 明治大学, 政治経済学部, 教授 (00364323)
• Research Collaborator: OKAWA Keiko ; MATSUMURA Susumu ; FUJIKI Chigusa ; KIN Norihiro ; Meredew Toni ; Saddington Mark
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 協働 / パートナーシップ / 委託 / サード・セクター / 公契約 / イギリス / 自治体 / 社会的価値

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In our study, we clarified the following; first, we found third sector organisations devised the way to provide public service in their own unique way. They produce not only goods and service but also added-value such as community building. Second, in local councils surveyed, front-line officers have been struggling for de facto partnership relationships with third sector organisations in order to reflect social value in public commissioning, even though formal partnership policy had abolished in 2010. This means front-line officers recognise the specific characteristics of third sector organisations. Finally, Local councils in the UK and Japan face the same challenge in the local public service commissioning. We conclude that sustainable partnership between public-third sector depends on how front-line officers exercise their discretion and this is the research task from now on.

Free Research Field

行政学　地方自治　NPO