It is that time of year again, when the public sector pleads poverty and wanders up and down Whitehall in threadbare suits and worn-out shoes. You guessed: it’s Budget season!
Except that, for local government, austerity is embedded and it is a case of pleading the sector’s poverty and hoping Treasury ministers will listen.
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