London Councils launches its Manifesto for LondonersReleased on 01 February 2010
Among the groundbreaking proposals being put forward by London Councils are:
- integrating non-acute care budgets of Primary Care Trusts with all other local care services by ensuring that local authorities have accountability for commissioning services
- re-writing the licensing laws to allow boroughs to deal more appropriately with issues and concerns around pubs, clubs and premises like lap dancing clubs
- devolving the funding and work of the Government Office for London on safeguarding children to the London Safeguarding Children Board
- devolving Job Centre Plus programmes and other national and regional back-to-work schemes to boroughs. This will allow the boroughs to deliver co-ordinated support packages designed to meet differing individual needs.
- scrapping the housing revenue account system and allowing boroughs to design a London model for managing existing debt and borrowing against their assets to invest more in improving their housing stock
- increasing local co-ordination of offender management services with the long term aim of transferring financial responsibility for community justice and offender management of non-violent criminals to boroughs to make the system more locally accountable and sensitive to the concerns of local residents.
- abolishing the recently created Young People's Learning Agency in London and devolving its powers to the London boroughs co-ordinating arm for youth training.
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