Calderdale

Localism; local government and community action –

what is the future and who is writing the script?

Robin Tuddenham

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CalderdaleCalderdale

Local government’s role?

Local government’s role?

Challenges for Public Services

• Ageing population demographic pressures

• Safeguarding and increased cost and complexity

re vulnerable children

• Academies (Rutland), Universal Credit and so on

• The ‘plughole effect’ for universal and the visible

• Empowered citizens, ‘the expectation and reality

gap’

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Less money Less money

A challenge to traditional power?A challenge to traditional power?

Decentralisation of power• Local autonomy – reduced regulation,

opportunities to raise revenue, Local Government Finance Review

• ‘Ultra-localism’ – passing power/services/Assets to Neighbourhood and town/parish councils

• Community and pooled budgets – LIS pilot in North Halifax

• Local solutions – Incredible Edible!

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Committed leadership

Committed leadership

A need for new ideas

A need for new ideas

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An organisation that gets it

An organisation that gets it

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Co-authors of a new scriptCo-authors of a new script

Possible Futures?Possible Futures?

What this might mean?- Right to run, buy and build - Letting go - Doing some things well- Enabling potential and not being a block!

What this might mean?- Right to run, buy and build - Letting go - Doing some things well- Enabling potential and not being a block!

new forms of delivery

new forms of delivery

Resilient future?

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A resilient future?A resilient future?

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The future is ours to make

The future is ours to make