As part of the Rural Delivery Pathfinder programme eight Pathfinders were set up across England to build on improvements being made in response to local challenges in service delivery. In this region, the Pathfinder area was in the Fens and was a partnership between Cambridgeshire and Norfolk County Councils.
The results of the two-year programme are published today in the national report ‘Rural challenges, local solutions’.
The report highlights the finding that partnership working is critical to success and that communities must be directly engaged in defining what they want and how to deliver it. It also demonstrated that local authorities that show leadership and innovate, play an important role in delivering solutions.
Minister for Rural Affairs, Jonathan Shaw, welcomed the report saying:
“The achievements of each Pathfinder are distinctive, reflecting local priorities and circumstances. They have worked together to get more value out of funding streams and have brought strong leadership to improving rural services. I congratulate the local authorities involved for the success they’ve achieved and I look forward to seeing them and others share the learning and build on that success.”
