Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

Her Majesty's Government what evidence they have of partnerships being created between library services and other local and public sector services.

The Libraries Taskforce’s Libraries Deliver: Ambition for Public Libraries in England 2016 to 2021 strategy document, good practice toolkits and blogs contain a range of examples of partnerships between library services and other local and public sector services. This includes partnership arrangements between local authorities (such as procurement consortia), as well as service delivery partnerships with other council services (such as One Stop Shops), adult and community education, local colleges, job centres, post offices, Citizens Advice Bureau, tourist information, cultural and health organisations.

A range of partners also work with library services to deliver services and activities in a consistent way across the country through the Society of Chief Librarians’ Universal Offers.