Total Place is an initiative of the UK Treasury to identify ways of making public services more efficient. It is charged with establishing a “new relationship with Government” by encouraging local government to take a fresh look at all the public money spent in a neighborhood, town or city and to ask whether better outcomes could be achieved were it to be spent differently.
The usual  targets of waste and duplication are central to the approach since Total Place is concerned will making the system work more efficiently. However, in some settings, reducing the burden of the system itself is also expected to produce efficiencies.
Local areas will for example be freed from the burden of collecting large amount of administrative data. Some financial controls will be loosened, particularly those that prevent pooled budgets. Performance regimes that impede collaboration will be scrapped. There will be freedom to invest in prevention. All in exchange for better outcomes.