The Audit Commission is urging a fresh approach to the way councils charge for some of their services.
Councils in England and Wales raise about six billion pounds a year for services such as provision of carparking, home care, leisure centres and adult education.
Consultation over the Government’s plans for change to the way poor and disadvantaged people receive help with housing has shown concern that a lack of funding could jeopardise what is otherwise, a well-supported concept.The DETR has published research which pulls together key findings from the consultation, and which will inform the Government’s already-announced intention to scrap Housing Benefit and replace it with the new ‘Supporting People’ scheme by 2003.
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