‘Back off Gove!’

By Martin Ford | 31 January 2024

The Government has been accused of ‘micromanagement’ of council finances with the launch of new productivity measures.

Alongside the announcement of a £600m boost to the local government finance settlement, new demands for productivity plans and a clampdown on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) programmes by local government secretary Michael Gove have sparked alarm.

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