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- Communities and neighbourhoods
- Community empowerment
- Promote Community Empowerment
- Timely information to citizens
- Timely information pilots
Timely information pilots: Invitation to submit funding approvals
Communities and Local Government are inviting local authorities in England to submit funding proposals for innovative pilot projects to provide better local information to citizens.
This project has been set up to deliver on the government commitment in Chapter 3 of the recent White Paper: Communities in Control: Real People, Real Power, to improve citizens' access to information on local services and performance, in order to empower them to hold local service providers to account.
We would like to fund around 10 projects, to test out innovative approaches and techniques which will advance our knowledge of good practice and act as exemplars to other authorities. This will complement the research we have already commissioned to draw out good practice principles from current local authority activity and help the development of a good practice toolkit, which we will work with local government to promote in 2009 and beyond.
We have around £420,000 available for allocation before the end of 2008-09 and approximately a further £500,000 for 2009-10, to fund a mixture of capital and revenue projects.
The deadline for 2008-09 funding is 30 January 2009 but, if this is too soon for your authority to develop a bid, there is a second deadline of 27 February 2009 for funding in 2009-10.
More information about this project and how to submit a bid can be found at www.esd.org.uk/informingcitizens (external link).
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