Last Wednesday while Dominic Cummings' testimony was dominating national attention, Localis convened a policy debate on what a long-term approach to the funding of local services might look like in the current context.

We assembled The MJ's very own Michael Burton, Abdool Kara, executive leader, local services from the National Audit Office (NAO), Lancashire CC's chief executive officer Angie Ridgwell and Grant Thornton partner Phillip Woolley to assess the landscape.