National Audit Office boss Sir Amyas Morse has accused central government of an ‘out of sight, out of mind culture’ in imposing council cuts.
In a speech, he said it was ‘relatively easy to allocate savings to those operating outside a department’s boundary or with a different mandate without necessarily understanding their effect’.
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