Localism; local government and community action – what is the future and who is writing the script? Robin Tuddenham
Dec 30, 2015
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