Why I’m quietly rooting for health commissioner Lester Levy

Comment: Two contrasting events in the past week got me thinking about “localism’ in delivering social services. There is wide agreement on how desirable this is. It may be just my contrarian nature, but I’m wondering whether we all mean the same thing when we discuss it, and whether we really understand its implications.
At a conference for people chairing community organisations organised by Community Governance Aotearoa in Rotorua this week I was with a cross-section of voluntary services. Only a small slice of the 115,000 such not-for-profit organisations in the country but reasonably representative.