Councils can complain to health secretary Jeremy Hunt if they believe local NHS groups are ignoring the commissioning strategies set by health and wellbeing boards, the Department of Health has said.
The next phase of community budgets is set to be a key general election battleground as the main parties develop their strategies in the next few months for managing public services beyond 2015.
Localis Chief Executive, Alex Thomson, reflects on what the council of 2020 might look like and what the challenges over the next decade might be.
Public servants who form ‘John Lewis’ style mutuals to deliver key services need better access to external finance, a government-backed report has concluded.
Localis chief executive, Alex Thomson, appeared on the BBC World Tonight programme this evening, making the case for localism and neighbourhood planning.
The mood at the LGA conference seemed to me to be reasonably upbeat ? which is perhaps surprising, given that the sector has been clobbered again by the Treasury.
Local authorities and local enterprise partnerships are among the dozens of bodies which have been awarded part of a £506m regional growth fund award.
The governments review of financial Whitehall management will examine the possible integration of functions across departments, the Treasurys director general of public spending has revealed.
Localis’ Alex Thomson comments on the announcement of an extra 4.3m in funding for the community budgets programme.
The number of local authorities adopting different processes for tenders below EU thresholds has increased from 74% to 83% this year.