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Budget needs to back local government

Head of local government at Grant Thornton UK, Paul Dossett, says there are no areas where further significant cuts can be made that wouldn’t seriously jeopardise future service delivery.

Local government finances are at a tipping point.

With more than one in three councils spending more than their anticipated budgets in the 2015/16 financial year and a similar result expected this year you would hope redressing this balance would be top of the Government's agenda.

Paul Dossett

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