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			<title>Whitehall Watch</title>
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We cast our eye over what's happening in Whitehall for one last time in 2011....


Over at DCLG they must be breathing a sigh of relief as the Localism Act finally made it onto the statue book. T...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:11:06 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>The People’s Budget - an antidote to meaningless consultation</title>
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Big Society, we are told, is all about placing power in the hands of citizens - giving &lsquo;ordinary people' a say over what happens in their communities. Forget the brand (which some suggest is n...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:25:59 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Public Service Blues</title>
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So finally the government has published its Open Public Services White Paper, outlining its vision of where it wants us to be by 2015: (nearly all) public services outsourced - from running election...]]></description>
			<author>Tony Hillman</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:09:36 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Reaction to plans to repeal the Duty to Involve</title>
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It started as a good news story....DCLG issued draft Best Value guidance (http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/localgovernment/bestvalueconsult) following Eric Pickles speech at NCVO's annual ...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:02:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Big Society relaunch risks becoming a rehash</title>
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Yesterday I was at the Big Society Network event where the Prime Minister relaunched his Big Society project. The room was packed with the faces I expect to see at these sort of affairs - though not...]]></description>
			<author>Tony Hillman</author>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:37:19 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Warm Words Ring Hollow</title>
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Over recent weeks Ministers have been at pains to stress the importance of civil society to the Big Society agenda. Local Authorities are being encouraged not to &lsquo;do the easy thing (http://www...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:10:01 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Reaction to the Spending Review</title>
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As is the way with these things nowadays, Ministers have spent the last few weeks raising (and lowering) expectations of what the Spending Review (SR) might bring. And since the emergency budget bac...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:22:49 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>We need LEAPs not LEPs</title>
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Watching the development of proposals to form new Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) may have been mildly entertaining as a tale of political intrigue, jockeying and power struggles, but it does l...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:47:57 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Lost: local government – last seen in the vicinity of Big Society – reward offered!</title>
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Liverpool and the Merseyside Network for Europe played host to our most recent Big Society seminar. And although I keep thinking I'm going to struggle to find something new to say about each seminar...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:22:13 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Optimism amid the dark cloud on the Big Society frontline</title>
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Discussion at recent Big Society seminars we've held led me to believe there was a hardening of opinion within the voluntary and community sector as people prepared for a battle for survival. While ...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
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