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The need for caution

Greater Manchester combined authority’s devolution deal establishes a two-tier system of local government that exposes issues that must be faced before the sector drifts into a general structural reorganisation, warn George Jones and John Stewart.

Our last article warned about the seductive dangers of structural reorganisation in local government. Yet a new structural reorganisation is emerging in local government, but few are considering its wider implications for local government.

The new structure is developing in areas where metropolitan county councils were abolished in 1986. It is based not upon directly-elected authorities but on appointments by existing local authorities.

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