Community Budgets - The Localisation of Localism?

The Government has announced its intention to support and extend the programme of pilot Community Budgets (CB) projects it established in the immediate post-Spending Review period, with a view to a national roll-out of this model of place-based budgeting by 2013. The announcement reflects and reinforces a recent reinvigoration of interest at the political centre in a national programme of devolution of budgets, to encourage service transformation on the Total Place model. Many parts of local government and enthusiasts for the town hall-led development of local “Big Societies” will welcome...

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