The Scottish government is taking preventative spending seriously and is giving localities the resources and power to design and implement prevention programmes. Emily St Denny writes that this initiative recasts local autonomy as the capacity to express local strengths and identity, and to develop responses to local needs. However, the disparity across locales, compounded by the vagueness ‘prevention’, may yet undermine the Scottish government’s bid to introduce a more rational, effective and evidence-based form of prevention policymaking.
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机译:苏格兰政府正在认真对待预防性开支,并向地方提供资源和权力来设计和实施预防计划。艾米莉·圣丹尼(Emily St Denny)写道,该计划将地方自治重塑为表达地方优势和特性并发展对地方需求的回应的能力。但是,各地的差异,加上模糊的“预防”,可能仍会破坏苏格兰政府提出的采用更加理性,有效和基于证据的预防政策制定方案的提议。
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