As ever it's a busy time for local government – ‘twas ever thus' I hear fellow chief executives say.
We're all dealing with the perennial challenges. SEND, pressures on Children's & Adults' budgets, inflation impacting our supply chain – for some places these pressures have become unsustainable. Then there is the quest for fair and sustainable funding for all councils, and it really is starting to feel like a ‘quest' isn't it?
