SHIFTING council spending power to community groups isn’t a reworking of David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ a senior leader has said.

Plans are currently being drawn up to change ways of working at two Gwent councils with the intention community groups will be better supported to help achieve goals such as addressing poverty and improving people’s health.

The proposals have previously been described as transferring budgets from council departments to community groups which can then run services and facilities themselves and a response to diminishing funding for local government.

Torfaen council leader Anthony Hunt said the project, dubbed ‘The Deal’, isn’t the local authority’s own attempt at the Big Society concept pushed by former........

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