Thurrock BC is expecting financial pressures next year to further increase, as it struggles to balance the books for 2020/21 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Like much of the sector, Thurrock expects to have outstripped the £9.21m COVID-19 grant received from Government by the end of July, when costs are expected to reach £9.7m, and expects ‘significant additional funding to be required’.
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