Much is made of the need for coherence across services but achievingprogress across local area boundaries remains a challenge. An electedauthority will always need to be accountable to its electorate for howit delivered on the agenda on which it was elected, but this alsocreates difficulties.
The nearest services for some families are across a local authorityboundary artificially dividing them from the community they live in.
London has high mobility of pupils between authorities with eight percent of pupils attending a school in a different local authority. As aresult, it has been vital to develop a cross-London protocol on issueslike truancy to ensure all relevant authorities are kept informed and toensure any actions taken by individual authorities are co-ordinated.
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