Are you struggling with the cost of living?

You can find help with accessing grants, useful advice and money that you may be entitled to. Visit our cost of living support page

Express an interest in managing a local authority service

The Community Right to Challenge scheme allows groups to bid to run all or part of a local authority service, where they believe they can do so differently and better. Most of our services are open to the scheme.

Groups that can apply to run a service under the scheme include:

  • Voluntary and community groups
  • Parish groups
  • Charities
  • Groups of 2 or more employees of a ‘relevant authority’, such as the local council, and fire and rescue authorities
  • Another person or body specified by the Secretary of State by regulation.

If you’re part of one of the groups listed above and are interested in running a service, you must let us know by sending us an expression of interest form. You can do this by completing and returning a Community Right to Challenge Form. Once we have your completed form we will then decide whether to:

  • Accept it
  • Ask you to update it
  • Reject it

This process can take up to 6 months.

We will only consider expressions of interest:

  • From April to June, for services that we currently deliver
  • For a 3-month period, 9 to 12 months before the end of an existing contract, for services delivered on our behalf by another organisation.
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