As with Community Budgets, LAAs as a tool of government working in isolation from other mechanisms were an attempt
to rationalise a range of disparate funding regimes emanating from different ministries of state. They were a centralist, managerial response to local managerial problems. Community Budgets are similar, but with the benefit and hindsight of the experience of the Total Place programme, providing a veil of ambition to benefit end-users of local public services