Pondering the 'graph of doom'

By Abdool Kara | 02 May 2023
  • Abdool Kara

We all remember the Barnet ‘graph of doom’, albeit many other councils have claimed they drew the graph first.

For the unenlightened, this graph, created in the early 2010s, projected forward local government social care spending increases, thus identifying budgets for other council activities, particularly discretionary services, would be ever more squeezed.

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