Words banned from local government

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LGA banned words: full list
Here is the full list of 200 words and phrases which the Local Government Association says should not be used by councils:

Across-the-piece
Actioned
Advocate
Agencies
Ambassador
Area based
Area focused
Autonomous

Baseline
Beacon
Benchmarking
Best Practice
Blue sky thinking
Bottom-Up

CAAs
Can do culture
Capabilities
Capacity
Capacity building
Cascading
Cautiously welcome
Challenge
Champion
Citizen empowerment
Client
Cohesive communities
Cohesiveness
Collaboration
Commissioning
Community engagement
Compact
Conditionality
Consensual
Contestability
Contextual
Core developments
Core Message
Core principles
Core Value
Coterminosity
Coterminous
Cross-cutting
Cross-fertilisation
Customer

Democratic legitimacy
Democratic mandate
Dialogue
Direction of travel
Distorts spending priorities
Double devolution
Downstream

Early Win
Edge-fit
Embedded
Empowerment
Enabler
Engagement
Engaging users
Enhance
Evidence Base
Exemplar
External challenge

Facilitate
Fast-Track
Flex
Flexibilities and Freedoms
Framework
Fulcrum
Functionality
Funding streams

Gateway review
Going forward
Good practice
Governance
Guidelines

Holistic
Holistic governance
Horizon scanning

Improvement levers
Incentivising
Income streams
Indicators
Initiative
Innovative capacity
Inspectorates
Interdepartmental
Interface
Iteration

Joined up
Joint working

LAAs
Level playing field
Lever
Leverage
Localities
Lowlights

MAAs
Mainstreaming
Management capacity
Meaningful consultation
Meaningful dialogue
Mechanisms
Menu of Options
Multi-agency
Multidisciplinary
Municipalities

Network model
Normalising

Outcomes
Output
Outsourced
Overarching

Paradigm
Parameter
Participatory
Partnership working
Partnerships
Pathfinder
Peer challenge
Performance Network
Place shaping
Pooled budgets
Pooled resources
Pooled risk
Populace
Potentialities
Practitioners
Predictors of Beaconicity
Preventative services
Prioritization
Priority
Proactive
Process driven
Procure
Procurement
Promulgate
Proportionality
Protocol
Provider vehicles

Quantum
Quick hit
Quick win

Rationalisation
Rebaselining
Reconfigured
Resource allocation
Revenue Streams
Risk based
Robust

Scaled-back
Scoping
Sector wise
Seedbed
Self-aggrandizement
Service users
Shared priority
Shell developments
Signpost
Single conversations
Single point of contact
Situational
Slippage
Social contracts
Social exclusion
Spatial
Stakeholder
Step change
Strategic
Strategic priorities
Streamlined
Sub-regional
Subsidiarity
Sustainable
Sustainable communities
Symposium ­­
Synergies
Systematics

Taxonomy
Tested for Soundness
Thematic
Thinking outside of the box
Third sector
Toolkit
Top-down
Trajectory
Tranche
Transactional
Transformational
Transparency

Upstream
Upward trend
Utilise

Value-added
Vision ­
Visionary

Welcome
Wellbeing
Worklessness

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Ok, so some of these I'd be more than happy to never hear again from the mouths of corporate twats who've descended from on-high to inform us little people of the current mode-of-practice..., but how do you avoid using the word 'toolkit'? 'Pass me that box of l woodworking implements would you?'

[Skylace]

I am wondering about welcome, wtf?
"Thanks for helping me today" "Your gratitude is appreciated"

[Kezza]

My first thought was that now a whole new set of vocabularies will be created to replace the current list!

[Skylace]