High needs deficits: councils call for 100% write-off

Councils have warned that their budgets will come under significant strain as a result of having to foot the bill for the remaining tenth of high-needs deficits.

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Amanda Serjeant, vice chair of the Local Government Association’s children, young people and families committee, welcomed the government’s commitment earlier this year to cover

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