The first 16 areas to trial so-called community budgets began the pilot in April. Speaking at the Local Government Association (LGA) conference today (29 June), Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg invited more councils to sign up to the programme with the aim of getting 50 more on board this year and a further 60 by 2012/13.
Community budgets allow councils to pull together funding from a variety of sources such as youth offending budgets and health to tackle families with the most complex needs.
For example, in Islington the council, NHS trust, Jobcentre Plus, probation, police, housing and voluntary sector groups are pooling staff and more than £6m of resources for their community budget plan.
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