The local government review: A critical appraisal

Abstract

The Local Government Review is facing a crisis of credibility. The process of reorganization has always been fundamentally flawed, because of the Review's isolation from the other major issues facing local government and the fact that it is rooted in an explicit concept of the role and functions of local government. The Government's intervention in October 1993—speeding up the Review and imposing revised guidance—made a difficult situation worse. Although there are other possible scenarios, the new guidance is likely to lead to ‘political’ situations, in which the role of the Local Government Commission is reduced to that of a symbolic legitimation of a governmental ‘quick fix’, along the lines of the solution so arbitrarily drawn up and imposed in Scotland and Wales.

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