For most, the festive period is a time for giving and receiving. The proposed local government finance settlement brought very few gifts for counties.
We all expected a challenging settlement, but what we were presented with was beyond the worst-case scenarios that many of us had planned for. The Government may think it has provided enough money for social care, but sadly it hasn’t.
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