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Theme : localgovernment
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The Grim Reap of Arts Cuts
'Nearly 200 arts organisations in England have been told that their funding will end from next April in the biggest and most bloody cull since the Arts Council was set up more than 50 years ago'
from : samjones
17th December 2007
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Arts funding fears as local authorities receive worst settlement in a decade
Local government theatre funding is facing severe cuts after councils across the country complained they have received their worst treasury settlement in a decade.
from : samjones
1st November 2007
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New Statesman - Local heroes
With new cuts to arts funding, small theatres will be the first to suffer ... but their importance to communities has never been greater.
from : samjones
19th April 2007
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Whipping up a perfect storm...
Last year’s Demos report A Perfect Storm? predicted that there would be widespread cases of local authorities cutting back their cultural provision. Since then, Wandsworth has threatened to close Battersea Arts Centre and Walthamstow Museum, the William Morris Museum in Waltham Forest is under threat, Bolton is selling assets, and Southampton is discussing closing part of its museum service.
from : samjones
6th March 2007
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Can we trust local government: Making devolution democratic
Speakers:
Sir Michael Lyons, Lyons inquiry into local government
Lucy DeGroot, Executive Director, IDeA
Steve Stewart, Assistant Chief Executive, Wakefield Council
Tony Barry, Director of Strategic Development, Amey
Chair: Simon Parker, Senior Researcher - Public Services, Demos
from : mollywebb
2nd August 2006
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If Demos did call centres...
The work we're doing on trust and service design at the moment has got me thinking - we seem to have developed a terrible habit of 'improving' public services in ways that actually harm people's experiences of them. Just look at local government over the past five or six years - the Audit Commission says services have improved significantly, but there's not much evidence that the public has noticed.I think this is about the call centre problem. You outsource your customer contact services, put...
from : simonparker
18th July 2006
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Central, local or somewhere in between?
Ruth Kelly says she's prepared to seriously devolve to cities, as long as the various councils in those cities show her that they can put strong and accountable leadership in place to use the new powers. Quite right too - some kind of board of council leaders from different political parties, with different local interests, sounds like a recipe for deadlock.The problem is that all the proposals that the core cities have come up with involve, errrr, boards of council leaders.Kelly's rejection...
from : simonparker
13th July 2006
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Central reservations
"Britain’s 30 years of centralisation has left local government weaker, poorer and less influential than in any other western country. New Labour has made some tentative steps in the opposite direction, but is still criticised for its centralising tendencies. The time has come for it to pin its colours firmly to the mast of devolution.
Over the last year, I have been working with councils across the country and with government departments to show how empowering neighbourhoods can...
from : sophiaparker
20th June 2006
