The local government response to austerity in a small devolved country: the case of Wales

Taylor-Collins, Emma; Downe, James Daniel

doi:10.1080/03003930.2021.1996357

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“…Initially, when deals were being offered in Scotland and England, there was a concern that Wales would be missing funding opportunities (Pike, 2015). The deals for Cardiff City Region and Swansea City Region (Taylor-Collins and Downe, 2021) were the first to be agreed in 2016 and 2017. The local authorities had to commit their own funding immediately (Taylor-Colins and Downe, 2021) while the Westminster and Welsh governments committed theirs over 15–20 years.…”

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“…The deals for Cardiff City Region and Swansea City Region (Taylor-Collins and Downe, 2021) were the first to be agreed in 2016 and 2017. The local authorities had to commit their own funding immediately (Taylor-Colins and Downe, 2021) while the Westminster and Welsh governments committed theirs over 15–20 years. The deals in Wales are led by local authorities through the establishment of joint committees.…”

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“…The local authorities in Wales have been positive about the deals, regarding them as a means of obtaining more funding and mitigating austerity (Taylor-Collins and Downe, 2021). Following the Brexit referendum in 2016, there was no specific link between the deals offered for Wales and the replacement of EU funding (Bell, 2018) although subsequently this has been rolled into a broader common approach of ‘levelling up’ across the UK.…”

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Deals and devolution: The role of local authority deals in undermining devolved decision making

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2022

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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The introduction of the devolved administrations (DAs) in the UK in 1999 was based on specific legal powers for this new scale of governance which included control of national and local priorities for expenditure within devolved matters. The legal powers conferred on these administrations included freedoms to determine expenditure within budgets which, in the case of DAs, included specific allocations linked to the Barnett Formula ensuring proportional allocations of UK state expenditure in a range of policy areas and later in the DAs, powers were provided to allow direct access to borrowing and raising funding through a range of means. In the period 1999–2014, DA powers were gradually increased, first in Scotland then in Wales and Northern Ireland. However, since 2014, in the DAs, UK Central Government has been using the provision of local and sub-regional ‘deal’ funding models, controlled by Whitehall, to gradually undermine this devolved decision making. This article discusses the role devolution and deals within the context of increasing EU principles of subsidiarity and the exercise of the UK Government’s de facto and de jure powers in response. It examines the role of deals in the DAs and their lack of accountability within the UK state.

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Does better than expected life expectancy in areas of disadvantage indicate health resilience? Stakeholder perspectives and possible explanations

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Problematising ‘Fused Principles’ in Discourses of Preventative Social Care: Interpreting the Implementation of National Social Services Legislation in Wales, UK

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The British Journal of Social Work

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Prevention is a core principle in social care legislation across the UK. However, history shows great variability in how a preventative social care agenda is conceptualised and implemented. We report findings from an independent evaluation of the implementation of the ‘2014 Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act’ incorporating a document analysis of reports and plans from Wales’ twenty-two local authorities (LAs) and eighty-eight qualitative interviews from social services strategic leaders and operational managers within four Welsh LAs. Analysis highlighted multiple interpretations of national policy, with notable overlapping agendas. In Gramscian terms, there is a constant process of negotiating prevention values and agendas, with consequences for whose interests are served. This was apparent through drives towards cost-saving, financial sustainability and reduced service demand operating alongside values-based principles rooted in well-being and mutualism. Following Kenny’s work in community development, we argue a ‘fusing’ of principles whilst espousing benefits for service users, potentially blurs the aims of the legislation, with implications for practice.

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The local government response to austerity in a small devolved country: the case of Wales

Cited by 5 publications

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Deals and devolution: The role of local authority deals in undermining devolved decision making

Deals and devolution: The role of local authority deals in undermining devolved decision making

Does better than expected life expectancy in areas of disadvantage indicate health resilience? Stakeholder perspectives and possible explanations

Problematising ‘Fused Principles’ in Discourses of Preventative Social Care: Interpreting the Implementation of National Social Services Legislation in Wales, UK

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