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Dan Peters 03 April 2025

EXCLUSIVE: Sector bodies decline to join legal challenge

EXCLUSIVE: Sector bodies decline to join legal challenge image
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The County Councils' Network (CCN) and Rural Services' Network (RSN) will not financially support legal action over ministers' axing of the £100m Rural Services Delivery Grant, The MJ understands.

CCN has warned the grant's removal will ‘further exacerbate the financial challenges faced by county and rural authorities' but neither it nor RSN are expected to join planned legal action by North Yorkshire Council.

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