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The recent flurry of government announcements about academies and free schools was accompanied by the trumpeting of now familiar themes – autonomy, liberation, devolution of funds to the front line and the banishment of bureaucracy.
"Maintaining the current large numbers of local authorities and increasing devolution of funds to schools will only exacerbate the situation".
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Devolution of funding to schools was coupled with the introduction of a prescribed national curriculum.
The report comes as NHS England tries to change the models of funding where health and social care budgets are split – a proposed devolution of state funds to greater Manchester to help conquer that problem was announced on Wednesday.
An English Devolution Act transfers £30bn of funding to city and county regions, which retain 100% of additional business rates raised in their areas.
DEVOLUTION Labour Would switch £30bn of funding to English cities and counties, plus powers over economic development, skills, employment, housing and local transport.
Greater devolution of funding and power to cities will allow more comprehensive and ambitious integrated strategies to be put in place.
He said: "Working together is the best way to promote jobs and growth and to secure devolution of funding, powers and responsibilities from the government.
A couple of weeks ago I noted that the devolution of funding and decision-making for health and social care to Greater Manchester went some way to fulfil a long-running Treasury ambition for the NHS to be - in effect - broken up.
This is not simply about the wholesale devolution of funding pots, funding decisions or tax raising powers.
The trust said its 400 foodbanks were reporting increased referrals as a result of the bedroom tax, sanctioning (when claimants have their payments stopped for up to six months for infrigements of beneift conditions) and confusion caused by the devolution of social fund crisis loans to local councils in April.
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