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The rationale for this is that "LAGs are best-placed to understand the needs and opportunities of their communities and are thus best placed to manage and deliver the funding."
The OBR told the Committee that “the best way to adjust the cost of provision of such services for inflation [for public spending]—probably lies somewhere between the lower number of the GDP deflator and the higher number of CPI inflation”.
If we are trying to foster a culture of care in our society, we need people to have an understanding of where food comes from, how best to prepare it and the consequences of our choices for the environment.
A recent amendment to the 2009 Regulations introduced a duty for local authorities to place siblings together in care, as long as this is in their best interests. If it is not in their best interests to be placed together, siblings must be placed in homes near to one another.
COSLA supported the suggestion of a fiscal framework with rules about the impact of spending -
obviously, we believe that we are the best people to determine how to do what we do at the local level, but that has to be done within a larger framework.