New measures to help ease immediate financial pressures faced by councils in England due to the coronavirus outbreak have been announced by the Government today.
Councils will be allowed to defer £2.6bn in business rates payments to central government and £850m in social care grants will be paid up front this month in a move aimed at helping to ease immediate pressures on local authority cash flow.
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