ABSTRACT

Previous chapters described the roles played in regeneration by many different types of people: community leaders and those they endeavour to lead, councillors, civil servants and administrators from government offices or departments, professionals from many different backgrounds including those who work for local government, the health service and the police; also those who lead, or are employed by, independent organizations in what is often no longer accurately described as the voluntary sector. Relatively little has been written about how these players, either individually or as members of boards or partnerships, spend public money, and account for their actions, both to the people who live in local areas and to the tax-paying public at large.