It is at local and regional level, and large parts of the welfare system is delivered in schools, health care and long-term care. However, the government is faced with major challenges. Demographic changes are leading to increased needs and increased costs, and at the same time as a decline in economic development could lead to a reduction in tax revenues.
some of the problems that cities and regions are facing can and must be solved at local and regional level. There is, for example, to have a greater preventive efforts, improve the use of digital tools, as well as to ensure effective control. It will, however, need to help any further. It is against this background that the Centre, together with the government and the Liberal party agreed to provide additional funding in the form of increase in general funding from the government, both in deployment in the coming vårändringsbudget.
the State also needs to look at how you can make it easier for local government, long-term planning, with less micro-management. The state detaljstyrningen in the form of a dedicated local government grants are a major problem, particularly when it comes to the municipalities, and, in particular, in the school system.
instead of putting the billions annually withheld because of administrative red-tape, we can add more resources to invest in school quality.
it is the Targeted funding from the government, it can in some cases be an effective tool to stimulate activity in a certain direction. Within the health care system, there are several examples of this, among other things, kömiljarden. However, a large part of the targeted grants, which go to the front of all of the municipalities, imposes, on the contrary, are often more trouble than they solve.
the Problems associated with a specific local government grants is comprised of the following:
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The leading tax-payers ‚ money to be spent on administration rather than on investment and development.
The problems of the smaller municipalities that lack the capacity to seek and manage appropriate grants.
They do that, the municipalities are forced to invest in the tidsavgränsade project rather than a long-term investment. They will also reduce the potential for local adaptation.
Many local governments are being forced today to opt out of the bets that the inhabitants are most in need of, for the benefit of those who have to live up to the kravlistor as follows, with the appropriate local government grants. Today’s systems in such a way that a large amount of taxpayers ‚ money to be spent on administration rather than on projects which are developing with the school.
the System is very much a problem for the smaller municipalities, who often do not have the capacity to obtain targeted funding from the government. A small community must keep an eye on the dozens of targeted funding from the government just for a school. To apply for, manage, and follow-up of the local government grants are often time-consuming, the cost of administering the grants often exceed the amount of the government grant. As a result, both of the inequality, in which the teacher and students do not receive the same state funding that the teacher and the students in other parts of the country. It is also the case of the system with the result that large sums of money – some two thousand million in 2018, the budget is not going to school to be of benefit.
. A municipality may lack the language or would like to support the village school, but is not able to accommodate those needs, as you choose to make the investments that are required in order to receive special funding from the government.
the other problem is the difficulty for local authorities is to plan for the long term, because of the targeted funding from the government may disappear from one year to the next. The municipality may extend the adult education and training, or the hiring of new staff based on the requirements of the appropriate local government grants, only to later see that money go away, when the parliament clubs in the new budget. Leaving the local taxpayers with the bill, and to the students of the municipality still do not have a teacher of the language.
in Our proposal to provide more money for schools, and aligns local government grants to local government and to the individual the conditions and requirements of the. In addition, it will provide the government with a new and powerful tool for bringing more resources to the school.
the Centre party would like to reform the structure of the targeted local government grants in a two-step process:
1. We are looking for a possibility to transform at least one-half of the direct central government contributions in the school system to the general government during its term of office. , the Swedish association of local authorities and regions (in€) estimated that 50% to 75% of all directed funding from the government to the school, which can be converted to the general government, without creating undesirable substitution effects. Our goal is to be long-term, a similar proportion as in other parts of the government’s business.
2. We want to convert most of the remainder of the targeted local government grants for school a grant for the development of the school. “ Our proposal implies that the government assigns to each of the principal single contribution to school improvement, which means it can be applied for with the conditions and needs that exist. In this way, the municipality can plan ahead on the basis of the local needs and, at the same time, as the chief of the fathers of a good time, get to know how their funding is going to look like.
on The proposal for a reform of the government, will the taxpayers ‚ money is more likely to end up where they are truly making a difference. Instead of having billions, annually withheld because of administrative red-tape, we are able to put greater resources to invest in school quality. The people in our country should be able to rely on the welfare system is delivering, regardless of where they live. The centre will, therefore, be a guarantee of support for the government to take its responsibilities in order to cope with the challenges to the Swedish welfare in the face.
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