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Local Political Leadership in Britain: Rake's Progress or Search for the Holy Grail?

Local Political Leadership in Britain: Rake's Progress or Search for the Holy Grail? Local Political in Leadership Britain: Rake's Progress or Search for the Holy Grail? Howard Elcock, University ofNorthumbria The Bugbears of Co-ordination and Control British local govemment has been bedevilled for decades accusations by that local authorities either fail or are unable to co-ordinate their policies and actions, either local internally among authorities' own committees and departments, or with other externally public and sector private organisations. Local authority have departments been criticised repeatedly by official inquiries for failing to work together to avert disasters such as child abuse and avoidable deaths from parental cruelty, failure to care for old after people they have been discharged from hospital and other kinds of many policy and administrative disasters. have also They been unable to reduce waste because their departments insist on duplicating the provision of facilities. Such as repair workshops or supply warehouses, and services, especially administration, finance and computing, which can be provided more economically through central units or departments.. Local authorities have also not been able to develop coherent community action plans to co-ordinate the work of their own staff, private companies and voluntary agencies in addressing the need for urban regeneration and remedying environmental degradation, for example. Also, local http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Public Policy and Administration SAGE

Local Political Leadership in Britain: Rake's Progress or Search for the Holy Grail?

Elcock, Howard
Public Policy and Administration , Volume 21 (2): 16 – Apr 1, 2006
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Local Political in Leadership Britain: Rake's Progress or Search for the Holy Grail? Howard Elcock, University ofNorthumbria The Bugbears of Co-ordination and Control British local govemment has been bedevilled for decades accusations by that local authorities either fail or are unable to co-ordinate their policies and actions, either local internally among authorities' own committees and departments, or with other externally public and sector private organisations. Local authority have departments been criticised repeatedly by official inquiries for failing to work together to avert disasters such as child abuse and avoidable deaths from parental cruelty, failure to care for old after people they have been discharged from hospital and other kinds of many policy and administrative disasters. have also They been unable to reduce waste because their departments insist on duplicating the provision of facilities. Such as repair workshops or supply warehouses, and services, especially administration, finance and computing, which can be provided more economically through central units or departments.. Local authorities have also not been able to develop coherent community action plans to co-ordinate the work of their own staff, private companies and voluntary agencies in addressing the need for urban regeneration and remedying environmental degradation, for example. Also, local

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