Contributors to this publication from the Municipal Journal and the Confederation of British Industry argue that the time is right for whole-place community budgets.
Governments have addressed public services and public sector reform from the perspective of the institutional providers rather than client citizens, communities, and business. The consequences of that are now clear for all to see. They are: fragmented services with insufficiently joint planning and action; a failure to share resources for the common good between providers; the enhancement or protection of organisational identity taking precedence over service improvement.