The Comprehensive Spending Review will include the latest round of place-based budgeting pilots.
As the next round of pilots kick off, other councils will have more flexibility over their Revenue Support Grant (RSG) spending at a local level. However, early indications are that RSG will be severely hit by the cuts.
Up to 12 pilots are expected in the announcement to take forward the experimental work done by the former Total Place pilots. Councils have spend the past few months negotiating the projects, which can be carried out on either a local or a thematic basis.
In the initial stages, the pilots will run until April 2011. Assuming they run smoothly, the Government will free up the councils to take the projects further after April.
The original total place pilots included:
- Birmingham
- Bradford
- Central Bedfordshire and Luton
- Croydon
- Coventry/Solihull/Warwickshire
- Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole
- Durham
- Kent
- Leicestershire
- Lewisham
- Manchester City and Warrington
- Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland
- Worcestershire
