REORGANISATION

Clarify the costs

To be the best they can be, the new unitary councils should be designed with up-to-date assessments and be what local people want, argues Tracy Bingham

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I'm sure we have all seen the senior resource stretch that has accompanied the devolution and reorganisation agenda since the White Paper was published.

It's only right. How we organise functions and responsibilities is a form of resource management and that will be critical to fulfilling the organisational value of future unitary councils.

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