I comuni “affronteranno un deficit di finanziamenti di oltre 4 miliardi di sterline l’anno prossimo”
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/councils-face-funding-shortfall-5HjdF8r_2/
di tylerthe-theatre
I comuni “affronteranno un deficit di finanziamenti di oltre 4 miliardi di sterline l’anno prossimo”
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/councils-face-funding-shortfall-5HjdF8r_2/
di tylerthe-theatre
6 commenti
It’ll be interesting to see if Labour announce SEND changes in the budget. Thats a huge expense for local councils.
“council tax payers face huge hikes” as the headline is also known
You’re telling me those big brains who tried to DOGE local councils didn’t fix the budget by cancelling a few half hour meetings about diversity targets?
LVT when?
Council tax is so avoidable that bringing in LVT would help councils so much and even remove need for stamp duty and business rated
Councils do not have a funding problem councils have a statutory services problem.
Governments are making more and more services statutory and services that should be the remit of central government are being pushed on councils.
It’s a sleight of hand to say that your council has to raise council tax, as it saves the government from having to raise taxes by a lower amount from everyone nationally to fund those same services in a more efficient way.
Alternatively, council face ever increasing loads from unfunded central government requirements.
It’s worth remembering that in a lot of cases Councils are in this hole because central government made them *legally* responsible for the provision of all care in their areas (where a lot of this was previously the responsibility of organisations like the NHS) – **without** also providing the funding to allow councils to actually provide the care.
It’s why councils see 60% and up of their entire budgets spent on child and adult care services, and why they **have** to continually cut things like bin collections, and sports centres, and all the other things that make an area nice to live in.