Would England genuinely welcome greater local variation in the nature and standard of public services?

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

The content of the trainings rely on a series of guides that UNESCO has produced specifically for this aim, and also on the UNESCO Bioethics Core Curriculum, which is primarily designed around the internationally-agreed ethics standards but also around internationally-agreed human rights standards, while it acknowledges and invites local variation.

UNESCO: THEMES

The global food system drivers interact with local environmental factors to create a wide variation in obesity prevalence between populations.

FORBES: The Lancet's Series on Obesity

Chairman of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board Councillor David Simmonds acknowledged there was a variation in performance across councils and recognise that at times the system has been risk averse.

BBC: Councils named and shamed over slow adoptions