We all know that local government faces a huge challenge over the coming years.
The most obvious element of this is the immediate fiscal outlook. We know that local authorities are less than half way through the total spending cuts they need to make.
But climbing this fiscal mountain needs to be seen in the context of the profound questions rasied by longer term challenges such as an ageing population, a fluid gloabl ecnomy, population movement, climate change, urbanisation and technological development.
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