Dan Peters 07 October 2025

Experts' warning over Exceptional Financial Support

Council finance experts have urged the Government to ensure that Exceptional Financial Support (EFS) remains temporary and does not become ‘embedded in the public sector'.

The Government's stance has been that EFS is not a permanent funding stream for local government, but it has already been in use for five years.

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