Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

John Lewis Council v EasyJet council

On one side, we have Barnet which offers a choice of services but for additional payment. On the other, Lambeth that asks citizens for a mutual approach to service delivery in exchange for possible council tax rebates.

On the LGiU blog Laura Wilkes offers some thoughts on the drawbacks of both models

Do either models appeal?

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on February 21, 2010 at 18:58

I've just been sent an article which is a very useful addition to this debate. For me it underlines my point that the shift is about scarcity of money.

However, it's another point it makes which I think is its most important one. It's precisely the issue that struck me when I came out of a meeting with the Conservatives policy shaper, James O'Shaugnessy last year. James was interested in citizen-led social media as an instrument of co-production. Conservative thinking on this is quite radical. As I travelled back to our divided Haringey what concerned me was how well co-production may work in the west of the borough, including probably Harringay, but how poorly it might perform in the east of the borough.

Read the article in the Guardian........