Every local government FD has tangled with a service like this. It clearly needs more money, but it's very hard to disentangle the actual need from inefficiency. You have to link money to reform, and you'll probably have to drive the reform yourself.
The correct answer is Leveller. But no one on this thread seems to be one. I can only assume it's because they are all French.
This headline is an absolute bloody disgrace.
(LGR is a good idea because it means much more coherent economic and public service governance - the savings are real, but not very compelling)
Well between this and a new Mieville novel that's this autumn's reading shaping up nicely.
If LGR saves so much money, why are so many new unitaries on EFS or going bust? Latest in a regular series. www.themj.co.uk/council-inev...