The integration of services is the ‘most exciting game in town for transforming local areas', a new report by the New Local Government Network (NLGN) has claimed.
Break On Through, looks at how councils are faring with sharing data with partners, joint prevention programmes and joint commissioning.
It calls on the Cabinet Office to create a cabinet committee by the end of 2015 to ensure greater support for integration.
The NLGN's head of policy and research, Laura Wilkes, said it can help ‘deliver better outcomes and savings in the long term. Areas know that integrating is the way forward, but there are a number of things stopping them developing these relationships.'
