The finding will be a blow to children's minister Beverley Hughes, whois keen to encourage local authorities to see themselves ascommissioners of services rather than deliverers. At a conference thisyear she said: "Local authorities should not be saying 'our primaryobjective is to keep as much in-house as possible'."
But this is not some kind of conspiracy on the part of local authoritiesagainst voluntary and community organisations. Some councils take thedecision to move services in-house for strategic reasons.Cambridgeshire, for example, brought its Connexions service in-houseciting a desire for transparent accountability. But the survey foundtwo-fifths of respondents cited budget cuts as the main factor.
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