The MJ/LGiU survey exposes the growing gap between the public’s expectations and councils’ ability to deliver – with nearly two-thirds of respondents (61%) providing only ‘a little bit more’ than their statutory obligations.
After nine years of austerity the public is not happy, one cabinet member tells this year's annual local government finance survey.
Their council is one of three in the anonymous poll that admits they are now fulfilling their statutory obligations but delivering no extras on top of that.
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