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Section 114 chief: We will not be the last

Slough Council’s chief executive this week urged other sector bosses to ‘trust your intuition’ to avoid their local authority following in her Section 114 footsteps.

Slough Council's chief executive this week urged other sector bosses to ‘trust your intuition' to avoid their local authority following in her Section 114 footsteps.

The over-extended council last week became the second local authority in less than a year to issue a dreaded Section 114 notice after its borrowing quadrupled from around £180m to £760m in five years.

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