This provision is within the Localism Act 2011, and was brought into force on 27 June 2012.
The Community Right to Challenge enables voluntary and community bodies, employees of the authority that wish to form a mutual organisation to deliver services, and parish councils, to express an interest in running one or more of our services.
We must consider expressions of interest and, where it accepts them, run a procurement exercise for the service.
The Community Right to Challenge will hand the initiative to groups with good ideas about how services can be run differently or better, ensure their ideas get a fair hearing, and that they get the time they need to prepare effective bids for services.
Community Right to Challenge Guidance (pdf 127kb)
Community Right to Challenge Expression of Interest Form (pdf 67kb)