I have argued, through the work of the growth coalitions and smart local government project, (prior to the idea of LAAs,
Total Place or Community Budgets, LEPs or the Single Pot) that factors afflicting the local public services ‘system’ cannot be
resolved, and ‘wicked issues’ (now identified as those affecting many of the recent rioters, subjects of the recent Troubled Families programme) significantly addressed, without utilising the tools of Government and the existing mechanisms for local partnership work and service delivery ‘to make things work better for local people’