More than your job's worth? - Local Government Indicators 1
Monday/12/Nov 2007 Filed in:
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These indicators will inform not just the Sustainable Communities Strategy for your local area, not just the Local Area Agreement, but also the Comprehensive Area Assessment. That's a triple whammy of Public Administration .... and it does matter.
I know I know, you're quivering on the edge of your seat at the moment - but this *is* important. This tells us how the PSAs identified in the recent Comprehensive spending review will be measured at a local level. To put it another way, this is what your local authority is going to get stroked or beaten up for by central government. If it covers all the issues to do with drugs, then they'll be interested in in drugs, if it doesn't, they won't. If they're not interested in drugs and the virtual ringfence on the Pooled Treatment Budget is removed your service or your DAT (your job in other words) is less safe than it was.
Now have I got your attention?
Good.
(If the above didn't make sense to you, take a look at the Guide to the National Drug Strategy in the Articles section of this website. That should help you see how this all fits together.)
Have a look at the whole document - see what you think and make your comments to DCLG. The consultation closes on 21st December. Watch the blog here at www.saramcgrail.co.uk for more analysis later this month
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