A COSTLY SYSTEM
LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN BRITAIN (British Official Wireless.) I Rugby, October 5. Sir Kingsley Wood, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, addressing the second of a series of conferences, which he is holding with representatives of local authorities to explain the Government’s scheme for the derating of industry, and the reform of local government, said social services were costing the country over one million pounds daily. Many of them were administered by no fewer than six separate organisations, and there was an unanswerable case for greater co-ordination. Referring to criticism that the reform proposals would lessen the interest of the electorate in municipal work, he said he believed the new system of block grants would ensure a greater measure of responsibility. It would certainly make for greater freedom from the interference of Whitehall in local administration.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 12, 9 October 1928, Page 11
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139A COSTLY SYSTEM Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 12, 9 October 1928, Page 11
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