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The future of local public services - implications for local government

This resource explores how all available resources can be coordinated to offer helpful acts for individual and community well-being in local public services. It delves into ten core features and four conditions for success, providing implications for local government in terms of stewardship, values, future, and enabling various options.

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The future of local public services - implications for local government

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  1. Professor Helen Sullivan @HelenCSullivan The future of local public services- implications for local government

  2. System of Local Public Support All available resources (public, private, civic and personal) are co-ordinated to offer ‘helpful acts’ of various kinds (connections, ideas, interventions, products, resources, services) to promote individual and community well-being

  3. Ten Core Features

  4. Four conditions for success

  5. Implications for Local Government • Stewardship • Values • Future • Enabling: • Size of state: springboard, selection box, safety net • Community leadership and empowerment • Arena for political conflict

  6. Possible Options • Strong politics Local government facilitates a network of delivery options reflecting decisions made through collective encounters between communities, politicians and professionals Local government promotes and regulates a ‘market’ of service providers reflecting preferences of budget holding users who commission directly through user–led consortia • Logic of Care • Logic of Choice Local government determines what should be provided and how based on local priorities, (balancing technical assessments of need with political demands mediated by local representatives) Local government facilitates a ‘market’ of service providers to meet the preferences of individual users • Thin politics

  7. Connected and connective local government Connected Connective …and be able to connect them to resources of support …and to hold service and support providers to account …and connect existing resources together more effectively in constructing social solidarity • into local communities to develop a deeper understanding of the outcomes they value…. • to the views of users to develop a better assessment of how the system works… • to the range of potential providers to improve its commissioning capacity…. • engaging individual citizens and communities and providers…

  8. New Roles

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