The soaring cost of inflation, the national living wage, and the impact of energy prices rising, means the cost of doing business is already having a devastating impact on local authority budget positions.
Against this economically pessimistic backdrop, a reflection on the role of scrutiny in considering critical risks and commercialisation is timely.
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