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Good question, with no concrete answer.  Unfortunately, we can’t see the future!  Because the PBU is a project of a charity’s whose focus is empowering people in poverty and helping them out of poverty, we come down on the side of the community.  Our vision would be to see this led from the grassroots.  However, central and local government (and Local Strategic Partnerships) are where the money is held, so this is why our focus has been in developing policy with central government and promoting and advocating the approach with local public agencies – and then supporting them to deliver it.  As time goes on and the approach becomes more embedded as a way of doing things, then we would hope that it will become more community led and community demanded.