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Wrestling with uncertainty on budget setting

Adele Taylor says one key question for the Conservative leadership contenders is: ‘When will you consider multiple year settlements for local authorities are important, so we can plan our budgets better?’

Refreshing our medium-term strategies models is a task we are well used to doing around this time of year, updating and ensuring the assumptions that were used when setting the budget back in February are still valid.

But so much has changed in just a few short months, and it reminds me of one of my favourite songs as a teenager about having four seasons in one day given the rapid changes.

Adele Taylor

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