The Communities and Local Government Secretary has written to Councils up and down the country with the announcement that Council league tables have been formally scrapped by the new Government. Comprehensive Area Assessments (CAA) are the latest over-arching local government mechanism to get the chop in the Coalition’s localism agenda.
Commenting, Mr Pickles said: "Today I have instructed town hall watchdogs to stop tying the hands of council workers with unnecessary red tape and paperwork.
"It is much more important for the public to know what their councils are doing than having thousands of hush-hush, unseen papers being sent back and forth between Whitehall bureaucrats and the town hall. We are already pushing power as far away from Whitehall as we can and calling on councils to throw open their books to create much more cost effective and efficient local public services."
Commenting, Mr Pickles said: "Today I have instructed town hall watchdogs to stop tying the hands of council workers with unnecessary red tape and paperwork.
"It is much more important for the public to know what their councils are doing than having thousands of hush-hush, unseen papers being sent back and forth between Whitehall bureaucrats and the town hall. We are already pushing power as far away from Whitehall as we can and calling on councils to throw open their books to create much more cost effective and efficient local public services."
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