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Service integration is the most
exciting game in town for local public services, providing a path to improved
outcomes for communities and reductions in the cost of delivery. Government has
made it clear that taking forward integrated working must be done locally; but
progress and pace of change to date has been slow. Councils and their local
partners are facing a series of barriers which are preventing them from
acting.
This report focuses on what
local areas can do themselves to transform, and how central government can
support this. What we really need is radical change of relationships at a local
level, and to support areas to catalyse this process of building better
partnerships.