English councils have pleaded for an extra month for local authorities to publish their draft unaudited final accounts and open them to public inspection.
The deadline was extended to the end of July for 2020-21 and 2021-22 but the Government is consulting on a proposal to bring this forward to the end of May for the 2022-23 financial year.
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