The councils are afraid of being taken out of the local government

The government has received a grand plan to shake the way of working of the local government and how to give more clouts to the councils and mayors.

This involves merging existing councils to make single officials that provide all services in their area, and then, in many places, work together under a local mayor’s umbrella.

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But when many local leaders return the idea, there are lots of critics in this huge reorganization – and have created a lot of local lines.

In some places there is a disagreement on how councils should be re -structured, how many people should serve, what should be geographical boundaries and whether some councils may have to be taken to the financial burden of other councils – and All this is happening on one time when many local officials are struggling to balance the budget.

A local orthodox leader said: “This HMS is like reorganizing the dekchair on the local government’s Titanic that is still drowning and taking on water and we do not know how we are going to stop it.”

This is a process that started under the previous government. Some areas have already reorganized their structures and have chosen mayor, but the picture is very piece throughout England.

The government now wants Deputy Prime Minister Angela Reneer in every field called “deviation revolution”, and some have been completely signed up.

A senior Tory councilor said: “You need economy of scale for housing, transport, schools and roads, instead of what happens now, people who do not know if their compartment is not collected, And they do not know which council does – it is very simple and expected to provide services. “

Councils are subject to cosk, when it comes to funding, with social care, special educational needs and support for children with disabilities, and increasing demand for services such as housing.

They are also bodies that talk about fulfilling some of the major priorities of the government, including 1.5 million new houses construct During this Parliament.

A Tory Councilor said that a major shake-up was currently attracting attention by attracting his attention, and would not solve the financial challenges of the councils.

“It has become a lot of enmity,” he said.

“Many councilors were selected only in 2023 and are beginning to give their agenda around housing distribution, infrastructure and development and have expelled from under them.

“They were at the door saying that the government had to distribute the houses, but everyone has been so decided on the restructuring of the local government that they have not been able to think about their local plan.

“All the additional capacity and bandwidth have been taken talking about something that may or may not happen.”

There is another point of dispute – the speed at which it is happening.

Supporters say that the government has become clear about the direction of the journey, so it makes sense, while critics claim that the process has been “early”.

Lib Dame leader of South Cambrishire District Council, Clar Bridget Smith said that the issue of reorganizing the local government had focused on “exclusion of almost anything” before Christmas, saying that it is “massive distraction and bigger. The cost is the cost “. “Local will be lost in the local government”.

“Surely big problems are social care and children’s services,” she said.

“Surely it is better to focus on resolving them before transferring the local government’s decocirs.”

Setting up plans in the House of Commons, Rener said that there would be widespread busyness with local communities – and many local leaders are already knocking on the doors of ministers to share their views.

Some believe that pushbacks are being motivated by politics from those who are standing to lose the council seats.

“I think this bubbles are talking to themselves,” said a council leader. “This is about politics, nothing more than this.”

Labor leader of Thurck Council, Jack Kent said: “It is about the most centralized country in the western world, and it is a real transfer of powers in the town hall from Whitehall. The more ambitious for the population can only be good for people.

Tim Oliver, the conservative leader of the Surrey County Council, said: “The party is political noise about this, but at the end of the day we are here to serve the residents and the simplification and low cost for the residents is better? And we will get a little disturbance.

There is certainly a lot of discussion among the councilors of England – and disagreement – but one thing that is most agreed – and the ministers have accepted – this is that by changing the work of the council, they will not solve the challenges they will not solve what they Major services provide in front of them without reforms they provide. ,