Taking Forward Community Budgets

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Taking Forward Community Budgets

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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2012-02-27

Taking Forward Community Budgets written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-27 with Business & Economics categories.

Community Budgets were introduced in October 2010 as part of the Spending Review with the aim of giving local public service partners the freedom to work together to redesign services around the needs of citizens, improving outcomes, reducing duplication and waste and so saving significant sums of public money. Following the riots in summer 2011 the focus of these budgets changed and the troubled families programme was introduced in December 2011, aiming to change the lives of 120,000 troubled families by the end of the current Parliament. As these Community Budgets initiatives for dealing with families with multiple problems are still at an early stage, the Communities and Local Government Committee has produced a brief report setting out issues which will provide a starting point for a full inquiry and report next year. It is carrying out scrutiny of Community Budgets in separate stages. For the first stage, it invited written evidence, held a single oral evidence session and sets out an outline of the questions raised, which will assist its subsequent work on Community Budgets. The report contains no conclusions or recommendations to the Government.

House Of Commons Communities And Local Government Committee Community Budgets Hc 163

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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2013-10-23

House Of Commons Communities And Local Government Committee Community Budgets Hc 163 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-23 with Political Science categories.

Community Budgets are demonstrating their potential to deliver cheaper, more integrated and more effective public services. They are at risk, however, of being replaced after a few years if key issues are not resolved. If this opportunity is missed, the Committee warns that local services could come under unsustainable pressure in the face of increased demand and reduced budgets. This in turn may result in more spending later on judicial and emergency health and welfare interventions. The Government should send a clear message that it will assist every local authority wishing to introduce Community Budgets and to set out the specific assistance it will provide them with. Furthermore, the programme of pilots must not be allowed to slow progress towards wider implementation. If they are to succeed, public service providers and local authorities must realise investment in Community Budgets will bring them benefits. Local authorities, their partners, and central government should, therefore, develop a framework for agreements on how the benefits of investment are to be shared. On the Troubled Families Programme, the Committee is supportive of the work being done but highlights the need for greater focus on how work with these families will continue after the programme ends in 2016. Noting that the resources available have not increased in proportion to the number of families added to the programme in June, DCLG needs to monitor carefully progress and provide more resources to local authorities if necessary

Pre Appointment Hearing For The Chair Of The Audit Commission

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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2012-09-06

Pre Appointment Hearing For The Chair Of The Audit Commission written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-06 with Political Science categories.

Regeneration

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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2011-11-03

Regeneration written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-03 with Architecture categories.

The Government set out its new approach to regeneration in Regeneration to enable growth: What Government is doing in support of community-led regeneration (DCLG). But the document gives the Committee little confidence that the Government has a clear strategy for addressing the country's regeneration needs. It lacks strategic direction and is unclear about the nature of the problem it is trying to solve. It focuses overwhelmingly upon the achievement of economic growth, giving little emphasis to the specific issues faced by deprived communities and areas of market failure. The proposed measures are unlikely to bring in sufficient resources. Funding for regeneration has been reduced dramatically and disproportionately over the past two years, and unless alternative sources can be found, there is a risk of problems being stored up for the future. Also lacking is a strategy for attracting private sector investment. And the document gives too much prominence to changes to the planning system and does not acknowledge the benefits effective planning has brought to regeneration. The financial and economic climate has impacted dramatically upon regeneration, but the withdrawal of Housing Market Renewal Funding in particular has created significant problems, leaving many residents trapped in half-abandoned streets. The Committee suggests a number of measures that could, as part of a wider approach, contribute to stimulating regeneration and incentivising private sector involvement. The Government should now produce a national regeneration strategy which sets out a coherent approach to tackling deprivation and market failure in the country's most disadvantaged areas.

Financing Of New Housing Supply

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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2012-05-07

Financing Of New Housing Supply written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-07 with Business & Economics categories.

This report concludes that the Government must employ a basket of measures, covering all tenures of housing, if sufficient finance is ever to be available to tackle the country's housing crisis. For decades, successive Governments have failed to deliver sufficient homes to meet demand. The country faces a significant housing shortfall, and the financial crisis has amplified the problem. 232,000 new households are forming each year in England, and yet in 2011 fewer than 110,000 new homes were completed. The Committee sets out four key areas for action, which, taken together, could go a long way to raising the finance needed to meet the housing shortfall: large-scale investment from institutions and pension funds; changes to the financing of housing associations, including a new role for the historic grant on their balance sheets; greater financial freedoms for local authorities; new and innovative models, including a massive expansion of self build housing.

Localism

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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2011-06-09

Localism written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-09 with Political Science categories.

This report finds that the Government's desire to deliver localism is neither supported consistently across Whitehall nor implemented coherently by each department of state. MPs warn that the Minister for Decentralisation will need to bring coherence, rigour and clear priorities to the Government's programme. The MPs call for a more explicit statement about where the dividing line will be drawn between a central, light-touch framework for local services and unwarranted interference from ministers in local affairs. So far the Government has shown itself all too eager to impose its preferences on local decision-making. Ministers have also introduced policies that circumvent rather than empower local government: elected police commissioners, free schools, academies and health service reform, threaten to fragment rather than integrate delivery of better public services at local level. As devolution proceeds, the manner in which local decisions are taken come under greater scrutiny. Any reduction in the inspection and performance management required by Whitehall must be accompanied by stronger local democratic accountability. Broadening the provider base for public services is an important plank of the government's decentralisation agenda, but it remains unclear how far the 'Big Society' can expand to take on services and functions shed by statutory bodies. Localism should not be adopted purely as a way to curb public sector costs not least because the financial benefits of more tailored services may not offset the loss of efficiencies of scale. Stimulating greater democratic participation and civic activism will itself cost money if it is to be successful and sustainable.

Early Action

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Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2013-01-31

Early Action written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-31 with Business & Economics categories.

Early action is the early deployment of resources by public bodies to prevent problems occurring or getting worse in service provision, rather than spending money reactively once those problems have occurred. Determined leadership is necessary to divert resources away from pressing and highly visible current needs, in line with public expectations, towards long-term early action programmes, particularly at times of fiscal austerity. Evidence of early action's impact and cost-effectiveness is thin and since information on costs within most departments is also patchy, specifying an amount that could be reduced within the estimated £377 billion spent on 'social' spending in 2011-12 is not possible. However, projects with the strongest evidence base show that some early action projects can achieve returns of up to 4 to 1. The Government has adopted the principle that early action is important in public service provision but does not plan a significant shift in resources. The total amount spent each year by the Department of Health, Department for Education, Home Office and Ministry of Justice on early action intervention programmes has remained fairly constant at around £12 billion, about 6 per cent of the departments' spending in 2011-12. The NAO has identified four key challenges the addressing of which could help in the design and implementation of early action programmes: namely, more consistent and robust gathering of evidence of what works; overcoming short-term thinking and other practical barriers; effective cross-government coordination of early action; and strengthening departments' capacity to innovate and take bold long-term decisions.

Delivering Social Welfare

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Author : Derek Birrell
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2016-12-14

Delivering Social Welfare written by Derek Birrell and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-14 with Political Science categories.

As the system of social welfare governance and delivery in the United Kingdom faces continued, radical change, this important book argues that this change is so extensive that we should consider it a fundamental transformation or revolution. Assessing twenty years of changes across the whole of the United Kingdom, Derek Birrell and Ann Marie Gray show how a new public governance perspective has replaced the dominance of public management, reflecting the increasingly plural and fragmented nature of public policy implementation. Drawing on examples across a range of policy areas, this comprehensive book unravels the complex ways in which changes in social policy and governance interact in the delivery of social welfare, making it essential reading for welfare researchers, students, and policy makers.

Sessional Returns

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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2012-09-14

Sessional Returns written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-14 with Political Science categories.

On cover and title page: House, committees of the whole House, general committees and select committees

New Accountabilities New Challenges

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Author : John Wanna
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2015-04-08

New Accountabilities New Challenges written by John Wanna and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-08 with Political Science categories.

This important and challenging volume of essays draws on insights from leading academics and public servants from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Canada and elsewhere. It provides an excellent series of critiques of both the systemic accountabilities and the policy processes of government by drawing on meticulously researched, topical and real-world case studies of governance. Its contribution to the understanding of the applied processes of government in this way is exemplary. Topics covered include: restoring trust in government, parliamentary scrutiny of the APS, administrative law and FOI, budgetary reforms, implementation issues, competition policy, indigenous administration, collaboration with the NGO sector, educational reforms and the changes to the Auditor- General’s mandate.