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‘Chaotic, challenging, uncomfortable’: finance officers deliver settlement verdict

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A “rollercoaster” settlement has left finance officers on unsteady terrain – and full of trepidation about changes yet to come.

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Panellists at Room 151’s recent LATIF Online event said the complexity of the new funding arrangements – and the opaqueness of the figures behind

Fiscal devolution should be a tool to allow councils to tackle financial pressures without having to go “cap in hand” to government, according to Luke Hillan, associate director of local government finance and devolution at London Councils.

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