Repeated promises of reform to local government funding have heightened expectations and made the sclerotic pace of progress all the more disappointing.
As the findings of a recent report published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) have prompted us to question again, how can we claim to have a system that is fit for purpose when it relies on such out-of-date data and, as a result, demonstrably leads to significant funding discrepancies?
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