[cma-l] Barrier Busting

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Source: http://barrierbusting.communities.gov.uk/

The Barrier Busting team is devoted to helping local people get things
done for their community.

The government is committed to transferring power and influence to
local authorities, communities and individuals.

We are already reducing the burden of targets and inspection on local
authorities, paving the way for locally elected police commissioners,
and reforming areas including education and the planning system to put
more power in local people’s hands.

However – many of the best ideas about how to make our towns and
neighbourhoods better places don’t come from central government. They
come from local communities and councils.

Sometimes, local groups who want to get things done come across
barriers that only central government can lift. Those barriers might
take the form of rules and regulations, time-consuming bureaucracy, or
quite simply the way central government departments work.

So we don’t think the government should spend its time telling local
people what to do. Instead, the government should listen to local
people, and help them put their great ideas into practice.

If you need help to get things done for your community – and you’ve
done everything you reasonably can to resolve the issue at a local
level – you can use this website to contact the barrier busting team.

The team will listen and try to understand your concerns; they will
let you know if they think they can help. And, if so, they will do
what they can to get rid of the barriers in your way – perhaps by
re-examining policies, by getting rid of unnecessary requirements, or
by changing the way government departments work; and if not, they will
explain why not (there will sometimes be a good reason why something
can’t be changed

We will be putting real-life examples of the problems that the team
has helped to solve onto this website early in 2011.

Source: http://barrierbusting.communities.gov.uk/

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