Dan Peters 18 October 2023

EXCLUSIVE: Sector to plot solutions for 'broken' finance system

EXCLUSIVE: Sector to plot solutions for broken finance system image
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Local government is planning to collectively come up with some innovative ideas about how the ‘broken’ finance system could be improved, The MJ has been told.

Senior officers’ group Solace, the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy and the Local Government Association (LGA) are said to be ‘in the early stages’ of exploring a number of potential ideas between now and the General Election.

The latest meeting of the LGA’s economy and resources board is understood to have approved in principle a proposal for a joint piece of work on local government finance reform.

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