The Community Right to Challenge is taking shape with the passage of the Localism Bill through Parliament. Mark Johnson analyses the key elements of the Scheme.
The Localism Act received Royal Assent on 15 November 2011. One of the most controversial parts of the Act will be the new 'Community Right to Challenge' contained in Clauses 81 to 86.
The Community Right to Challenge enables voluntary and community bodies, employees of the authority that wish to form a mutual organisation to deliver services, and partish councils to express an interest in running a local authority service. A local authority is under a duty to consider expressions of interest and, where they accept them, run a procurement exercise for the service.
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