Scuole, case di cura e club sportivi venduti per pagare il debito del consiglio a spirale
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq87497v8ypo
di KMark4312
Scuole, case di cura e club sportivi venduti per pagare il debito del consiglio a spirale
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq87497v8ypo
di KMark4312
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“In the mid-2010s the coalition government encouraged town hall chiefs to broaden income streams by investing in property.”
“Though that grant has increased in the years since the pandemic, core spending power for local authorities is around 18% down per person compared to 2010, the Institute for Fiscal Studes found.”
Another symptom of austerity. Shifting the council funding model over to risky investments has been a total failure.
The Care Act and pushing responsibilities to councils is wrecking services and short term solutions like this are only wracking up the long term issues.
It’s also one of the most obvious indicators the country is crumbling to the public and every day we fail to act is making the eventual collapse at the end deeper and more difficult to deal with. It’s probably more than 5 years away though, so no one cares