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• From social care to homelessness, what are the cost pressures facing English councils?

  28-01-2024 16:00
  
  A decade of cuts has reduced local authorities’ ability to deal with key long-term issues, from child protection to an ageing societyAngela Rayner: Tories’ council fund is cynical pre-election sticking plasterBarnet council’s ‘Graph of Doom’ now looks prophetic‘Stuck without it’: Woking elderly residents face losing key transportOnce vanishingly rare, the prospect English local authorities might go bust now offers no surprise: four councils have in effec
  
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• Barnet council’s ‘Graph of Doom’ now looks prophetic

  28-01-2024 16:00
  
  In 2011, no one believed councils would be left to swallow the rising cost of social care unaided. But after funding cuts of 40%, their plight looks increasingly bleakAngela Rayner: Tories’ council fund is cynical pre-election sticking plasterWhat are the cost pressures facing English councils?‘Stuck without it’: Woking elderly residents face losing key transportIn 2011, two senior council managers in north London put together a PowerPoint graph that they felt might help kick o
  
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