Suzanne Jones on EFS: sticking plaster, solution, or stimulus for change?

Exceptional financial support may prevent councils from issuing a section 114 notice, but can they move from a focus on repaying it to delivering real transformative change? Experienced section 151 officer and consultant Suzanne Jones offers her thoughts.

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