Council tax to shoulder funding boosts
Increases to funding for local government and the police in the Spending Review will rely heavily on hikes to council tax, experts have said.
By Martin FordMinister Jim McMahon has suggested escalating Croydon LBC’s statutory intervention to a commissioner-led model to ensure it can ‘achieve sustained change at the pace needed’.
Health, defence and schools were the big winners in the Spending Review, but Whitehall claimed it would put local government back on a 'sustainable footing'.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced a £39bn investment in social and affordable housing over the next 10 years in the Government’s Spending Review.
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Increases to funding for local government and the police in the Spending Review will rely heavily...
Health and care secretary Wes Streeting has promised mayors and council leaders ‘a seat at the ta...
Minister Jim McMahon has suggested escalating Croydon LBC’s statutory intervention to a commissio...
Sector dismisses meagre government funding as consultants cash in on reorganisation
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