I'm not sure if or how the current growth agenda in all its guises connects with efforts to transform local services to better meet the needs of local people.

This in the context of what I see with Community Budgets as continuing to represent a new ‘managerialism', rather than a new ‘transformation' agenda to address the well-being of local people. Community Budgets are increasingly becoming a mechanism to reconfigure managerial arrangements for funding and service provision.