The success of localism will depend on scrapping councils' targets culture, according to a shadow minister. Speaking at the LGA debate, Who'll run the police, health services and schools in 2020?, the shadow minister for communities and local government, Bob Neill, vowed to scrap targets and ring-fencing, and to give more power to chief executives and local councillors, if the Tories come to power. He told The MJ-sponsored event: ‘Localism won't work unless we get rid of the targets culture and, second, we need to do something about the funding. We must get rid of the amount of ring-fencing which is in keeping with the scrapping of the targets culture.'
