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There would be a management challenge and also a democratic accountability challenge. One should be under no illusion about what would be created in those circumstances.
On the other, a number of witnesses suggested to us that the absence of accountability itself proved detrimental to the health and wellbeing of some survivors.
It is a question of bringing people together, having clear lines of accountability for who should do what and then going back to them about the actions that they have carried out and the outcomes that they have delivered.
The corporate body is furnished with information on the previous years’ spends, and it is entitled to take that into account—if I can put it that way—in agreeing individual budgets.
I said that the care commission should have a role in requiring the local authorities to take account of its reports in their commissioning practices.Will the new bill deal with that issue in relation to not only care home provision but community care provision?
The evidence that will be submitted to me will seek to take account of that.That said, one of the things that I picked up from last week's evidence is that there is a weakness in the available statistics.