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Cameron sets out new plans for Public Services

David Cameron is set to outline plans to give UK public services more power, in an attempt to localise control over services, the BBC reports.

In his speech in London today, Cameron will promise to end “take what you’re given culture”, by allowing community groups to run local health services and schools. By ending the traditional top-down control of services, it is hoped that the new service providers will help towards getting rid of the benefit culture permeating many areas of the country, as well as improving services provided.

National security and the judiciary are the only two exempt areas.

While Cameron will today vow to provide “more freedom, more choice and more local control”, he has still come under fire from Labour. The opposition believe that the Conservatives are over-emphasising the role of the market, and they have lost its way on public reform.

However, this could be a positive move for Cameron, as now could be the time his Big Society plans are finally realised.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .