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Kent implements savings plan amid ‘significant’ budget gap and depleting reserves

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Kent County Council has set out a savings plan and reduced non-essential spending amid an almost £44m budget gap and depleting reserves. A council

Government must tailor the support available to cash-strapped councils to ensure it accelerates – rather than impedes – their recovery, according to the finance lead at Barnet Council.

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