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Future Forum: Spending chief highlights 'amazing financial pressure' on councils

The head of the National Audit Office (NAO) today highlighted the ‘amazing financial pressure’ councils are under in delivering existing services and new COVID-related demands.

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By Ann McGauran | 24 September 2020

The head of the National Audit Office (NAO) today highlighted the ‘amazing financial pressure' councils are under in delivering existing services and new COVID-related demands.

The comptroller and auditor general of the NAO Gareth Davies was speaking at The MJ Future Forum  session on lessons for local government from the pandemic.

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