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When it comes to the crunch: how councils are responding to the recession |
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London: Audit Commission, 2009. 100p. |
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This report details how local areas have been affected by the recession, focusing on United Kingdom local authorities’ practices and research about partnership working. Each area has been affected differently, with those already deprived being worst affected so far. Council responses have varied and the authors call for councils, many of whom have escaped the worst effects to date, to widen their remit in the future from supporting businesses to tackling employment and social issues directly. Even with the three-year grant settlement with central government councils are uncertain about future funding, have lost income, halted their efficiency programmes and may have redundancy drives ongoing in their own organisation. In spite of these challenges councils’ future understanding of their economy, work with local partners and implementation of clear objectives will be key. The plethora of around 50 central government schemes mitigating the recession were seen as unclear and confusing by councils, often lacking local knowledge and impact and the authors call on national government for clarification of an overall strategy and the provision of simpler schemes which address local problems as they emerge. |
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cutbacks; local authorities; local government finance; regional government; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=b3052603-aace-4b1d-aa0f-a014702e9b11 |
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