Richard Vize has a Cri de Coeur on the demise of local government as a result of government stupidity. As he points out, stripping funding from local government forces Councils more and more into the role of simple crisis management which leads to more problems later on.
The problem I think it that Whitehall has lost its own sense of deliverability. Ministers seem to think that the effective implementation of a policy ends with the press release. They also seem to have no real sense of the agenda that supposedly should shape services, that users and practitioners (i.e. a local community) should help shape the policy. This is despite the well known failures of trying to govern everything from the centre.
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