There are several areas where the Localism Bill meets the Health and Social Care Bill in largely unfamiliar territory that could play a significant role in defining the future of the built environment and its impact on improving population health outcomes.
Dealing with public health is typically one area of cross party consensus, despite the political differences in meeting the challenges. One of the new policies of the Conservative led government is the separation of public health policy from the NHS and in doing so it is promoting a much greater focus on preventing people from needing to access the wider NHS system.
Professor Sir Michael Marmot: ‘Healthy Lives, Healthy People’ Public Health White Paper consultation event hosted by Solihull NHS Trust in early February 2011.
The Big Society and Funding of the voluntary sector. Nick Hurd MP, Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office, and Justine Greening MP, Economic Secretary, HM Treasury.
House of Commons Public Administration Committee, 16 February 2011.
The Big Society is to be David Cameron’s political legacy. It is his vision for the future of the country and he is staking his credibility and reputation against it.
As the spending cuts begin to filter through and service reductions begin to hit the public, anger and frustration will mount causing dissatisfaction with political leadership. The Labour opposition have naturally latched on to the Big Society and linked it to the spending cuts: the government wants to do more for less and it is you the public that will do more and the government will cut spending so it does less.
Wildlife and Countryside Link, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Campaign to Protect Rural England, The Country Land and Business Association and Action with Communities in Rural England
Town and Country Planning Association, Planning Officers Society, Royal Town Planning Institute and Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
National Association of Local Councils, National Council for Voluntary Organisations, Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations, National Association for Voluntary and Community Action and Open Spaces Society.
