The concept of pooling budgets to overcome professional silos is nothing new. The last government's Total Place scheme attempted to do just that and various local areas have been taking the initiative to align public services budgets for some time. But the coalition government's "community budget" pilot scheme claims to go further than before, giving local areas more power to combine resources into a single pot and redesign provision for local people.
The first phase of the pilot, which started last April, focused on using the budgets to support families with multiple problems. The second phase will look at how community budgets can expand to tackle a wide range of complex multi-agency problems.
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