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Financial pressures on local government remain after budget, sector warns

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Local government finances remain “under severe pressure” following the chancellor’s budget announcements.

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Kevin Bentley, senior vice chairman of the Local Government Association (LGA), said councils “will be rightly anxious that today’s budget does not provide the

‘Half-baked’ plans to overhaul Scottish local government will lead to significant financial costs that have not been thought through and risk repeating the flawed process of local government reorganisation (LGR) in England, ministers have been warned.

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