RESIDENTS of two Gwent boroughs are being urged to get involved in talks about overhauling how their councils deliver services.

Blaenau Gwent and Torfaen councils have already committed to working closer together and share a chief executive and some senior managers but both also intend changing the way they work with communities.

Both are launching what has been called “The Deal” intended as contracts setting out what is expected from the council and services or facilities that could be run or managed by local groups or volunteers.

That could involve devolving budgets and decision making and allowing community groups to decide how and where money, beginning in the 2026/27 financial year, is spent.

Identical surveys have been published on the websites of both Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent councils and residents are also being encouraged to register to take part in a citizen’s assembly process that will further discuss how each deal will work.

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