Welsh local authorities will receive £4.2bn to spend on key services in 2018/19 – but councils have warned they are still bearing the brunt of austerity.
Announcing the sector’s finance settlement this week, Welsh local government secretary Mark Drakeford, said: ‘My priority, using a formula we have agreed with local government, is to try to protect councils from the worst of the cuts passed on to us by the UK government.’
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