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Pell, C. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-1504-2129,
2016.
Debate: against collaboration.
Local Government Studies, 36 (1), pp. 4-5.
ISSN 0300-3930
Abstract
This article argues that collaboration should not be a policy goal of government. Collaboration does not solve the problem of fragmented services. Focusing on collaboration wastes money, fosters compliance and creates a new layer of bureaucracy. Meanwhile, the true cause of fragmented services goes unaddressed.
Collaboration has been a policy goal of the UK government since the election of Labour in 1997. It has become a central feature of policy initiatives, cross-agency funding and performance-reporting regimes.
As Huxham (Citation1996) notes, there is little consensus about what the term ‘collaboration’ means, either in theory or in practice. I use the term here to describe inter-organizational relationships in public services funded or mandated by central government. I make eight charges against government-funded collaboration.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | Local Government Studies | ||||||
| Creators: | Pell, C. | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| Date: | 2016 | ||||||
| Volume: | 36 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0300-3930 | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Schools > Nottingham Business School | ||||||
| Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher | ||||||
| Date Added: | 24 Jul 2023 13:41 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 24 Jul 2023 13:41 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/49430 |
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