Welsh councils must use the next 18 months to prepare for the ‘harder choices that lie ahead,’ Mark Drakeford has warned as he set out a timetable for local government reform.
In a speech to the Welsh Local Government Association conference, the local government secretary said he had ‘listened carefully’ to concerns about the ‘corrosive impact that uncertainty has had’ on councils.
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