Data showing the financial resilience of councils is to be beefed up in the face of failures, finance experts have said.
Following the collapse of local authorities like Thurrock Council and Woking BC, the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy’s (CIPFA) financial resilience index will be boosted to identify councils that are over-stretched on their borrowing.
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