Barnet LBC is proposing to place half its budget in the hands of residents, reveals a report setting out the latest stage in its groundbreaking plans to personalise all council services.
A new bank that could help fund community groups and stimulate a stronger civil society is being examined by ministers as part of a drive to give more power to local communities, Liam Byrne, the Treasury chief secretary, will say tomorrow.
London Councils has singled out managing chronic care, worklessness and anti-social behaviour as key themes for its Total Place-style mapping exercise of the £73.6bn worth of public expenditure in the capital.
Assessment cannot be about collecting and shuffling data together to create a mountain of ‘information’. Assessments have to be about prioritisation, analysis and exploration of how this evidence relates to, and in practice works with strategy and policy. In short assessments need to be intelligence ‘rich’.
The LGA has said it is disappointed not to have been consulted over a sale of publically-owned assets to be announced by the Prime Minister. Margaret Eaton, chair of the Local Government Association, said the sell-off could have serious ramifications for the state of (councils) tightly managed budgets.
Councils are to be given new legislative powers to establish mutual insurance companies in light of the recent London Authorities Mutual Limited (LAML) court judgement, Local Government Minister Rosie Winterton announced today.
Two things that were not mentioned consecutively in David Cameron’s speech to the party conference yesterday were the words ‘local’ and ‘government’. Instead, he spoke at length about the need for people to take more individual responsibility, the destruction of ‘big government’ and about providing ‘power to people’.
Policy Exchange and Localis released their report, Can localism deliver?, at the Conservative conference on October 7. It focused on the City Region Partnership project, currently being piloted in Greater Manchester, which grants additional powers to groups of councils that pool their resources on strategic policy areas.
Senior local government figures are calling for urgent talks with the Department of Health amid fears that Labours proposed National Care Service will commit councils to future funding burdens that are impossible to quantify
The Audit Commission is preparing a last-ditch attempt to prevent the comprehensive area assessment (CAA) from being abolished under a Conservative government.