Sue Robb of 4Children talks to Julie Laughton and Alison Britton from the Department for Education about the role of childminders in delivering the 30 hours free entitlement.
A new report published by Centre of Cities has warned that local authorities are unable to make the most of their public assets due to ‘restrictive and counterproductive policies’.
The report entitled ‘Delivering Change: making the most of public assets’ recommends a number of suggestions to encourage economic growth, including abolishing Stamp Duty on the transfer of assets between public bodies and local authority areas.
The think tank calls for a reform to the national permitted developments rights policy. It recommends that local authorities should be given more control and flexibility to shape developments across their area.
Alexandra Jones, chief executive of Centre for Cities, said: “This report shows that in a climate of continued austerity, local authorities are finding inventive and creative ways of using their public assets to improve their local economies and to spur on growth. However, it’s also clear that local leaders are being constrained by restrictive and counterproductive policies that are preventing them from making the most of their assets.
“It’s makes no sense, for example, that if local authorities want to create a public property company to manage all the public assets from different local bodies across a wider area, stamp duty is charged when they transfer those assets to the property company, and then again if those assets are sold off. Scrapping that tax in the first instance would enable local authorities to take a more strategic approach in working with other public organisations to get the best value from their assets.”
Sue Robb of 4Children talks to Julie Laughton and Alison Britton from the Department for Education about the role of childminders in delivering the 30 hours free entitlement.
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