Sentence examples for control over services from inspiring English sources

"We pay out all this money but have little control over services.

Liverpool's Labour council has withdrawn from a scheme intended to give community groups and volunteers more control over services.

Three London councils have called for new deals with Whitehall that would give them control over services traditionally managed by central government.

However, the flag-waving of recent years towards choice and control over services, as a way to achieving personal autonomy, may have been at the expense of other important features.

It is understood ministers were concerned about the mayor of London being given control over services partly for people who could not vote for him, as the rail links run outside of the capital.

This plan has drawn fire from hospitals, which say they have little control over services provided after a patient's discharge — and, in many cases, do not even know about them.

Fifth, the models allow a degree of control over service levels that is unattainable with existing models.

In these triads, the buyer lacks direct control over service delivery and completely depends on the subcontractor for its performance towards its end customers.

They want groups of councils to be able to bid for public service reform deals that let them opt out of national regulations and give them control over service areas traditionally managed by central government.

For example, we point to a range of highly practical and well-designed policies that would see the governance of public services radically changed: doing away with league tables and targets whose failure is so widely understood, and giving real control over service design and delivery to the users and providers of services, acting co-operatively.

The tri-borough councils – Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, and Hammersmith and Fulham – launched a paper at the party conference calling for councils to be able to bid for "public service reform deals" that let them opt out of national regulations and give them control over service areas, such as welfare.