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A local area based approach to public services
CCN believes that a new area based approach to local public services is needed with democratically elected local authorities uniquely placed to 'hold the ring' of accountability for public services locally and to enable to effective and efficient delivery of public services to local communities.
Work will include lobbying for:
- Recognition that the accountability derived from the local electoral process means that local authorities (and in multi-tier areas county councils) are uniquely placed to convence and lead partnerships locally;
- A duty on a public bodies to cooperate with the local authority on an area-based approach to the delivery of local services to local communities;
- Extension of local democratic influence over other public services operating locally, including Health and Police, including extending the commmissioning role of local authorities to encompass commissioning for health and social care;
- The extension of scrutiny to include other public services and utilities;
- A radical reduction in the number of quangos and other agencies and transfer of powers, responsibility and full funding to local government;
- Real commitment across central government to the principles of considering the totality of public service activity and resource employed locally, and concerted action by central government to join up policy across Westminster and Whitehall and to streamline and align operating and performance frameworks.