The Palgrave Review of British Politics 2006 pp 177-190 | Cite as
Local Government: Towards Strong and Prosperous Communities?
Abstract
The future of local government is supposed to have been the focus of three major reports in 2006. First, the interim report of the Lyons Inquiry into local government, National Prosperity, Local Choice and Civic Engagement,1 was published in May 2006, setting out Lyons’ arguments for a more devolved and responsible approach to place-shaping as a concept for both central and local government to tackle. It argues explicitly for a new central/local government settlement. Somewhat ironically, the impact of this heavily trailed report was lost in the sudden Cabinet reshuffle that took place the same week, creating an entirely new Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), with a new ministerial team headed by the former Education Secretary, Ruth Kelly.
Keywords
Local Government Local Authority White Paper Civic Engagement Local ChoicePreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Notes
- 13.P. Wheeler, Political Recruitment: How Local Parties Recruit Councillors (York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2006).Google Scholar
- 14.NLGN, Mayors Mid-term: Lessons from the First 18 Months of Directly-elected Mayors (London: NLGN, 2004).Google Scholar
- 15.S. Leach, J. Hartley, V. Lowndes, D. Wilson and S. Downe, Local Political Leadership in England and Wales (York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2005).Google Scholar
- 16.See, for example, D. Wilson and C. Game, Local Government in the United Kingdom, 4th edition (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).Google Scholar
- 17.S. Leach and L. Pratchett, ‘Local Government: A Second Wave of Modernisation?’, in M. Rush and P. Giddings (eds), Palgrave Review of British Politics 2005 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 192–3.Google Scholar
- 24.Audit Commission/IDeA, Fitness for Purpose in the 21st Century: Strategic Choice at Local Level in the New Millennium (London: Audit Commission, 2005).Google Scholar