This report analyses the challenge that communities face in the north west region. It was commissioned by North West Together We Can and delivered by the Centre for Local Economic organisations. The CLES identified the key roles for community anchor organisations in their localities and the approaches and linkages which are important in delivering results in the face of some of the challenges facing contemporary society.
Councils are facing tough challenges in making spending cuts but sharing back office services will not deliver the costs reductions required. A report from the localism think tank NLGN warns that they must be more innovative and ‘boldly go’ beyond just sharing what goes on in the back offices.
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The latest ‘Better Connected’ survey from the Society of IT Management shows that there has been a marginal improvement in the service provided by council websites since the 2010 survey. But the overall conclusion is that 98 percent of sites could do better and 68 percent of sites fail to achieve more than two stars.
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