Devolution: delivering services locally
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Summary
In the paper 'All Our Futures: the challenges for local governance in 2015' produced by the Tavistock Institute, SOLON Consultants and LGIU for the ODPM (2006), 'devolution' is described as a situation where, 'policies themselves are - within some limits - devised as well as delivered locally' and as opposed to 'decentralised' forms where 'national policies are administered and delivered locally'.
Impacts
- The future relationship between local and central government
- The relationship that local communities have with those who form local policy
- potentially 'empowered' local communities
Relevance
- Concerns the geographical and poilitical level at which decisons are made about service delivery and local governance
- Devolution is an important issue for all those invloved in the strategic planning and delivery of local services.
Related links
The Tavistock Institute, SOLON Consultants, LGIU, ODPM (April 2006) 'All Our Futures: The challenges for local governance in 2015' www.communities.gov.uk/publications/localgovernment/allourfutures
