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Rewriting the rulebook: Eastbourne’s exit from exceptional financial support

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With more councils receiving EFS than ever before, questions of how effective the mechanism is and strategies to end reliance on it are naturally raised. Here, section 151 officer Homira Javadi shares Eastbourne Borough Council’s journey that allowed the authority to exit EFS a full year earlier than planned.

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When I stepped into the role of chief finance officer for Eastbourne Borough Council in October 2018, the fiscal landscape was already shifting. I

A large cohort of CFOs have been put back into a “washing machine of turmoil” following the government’s decision to pause and review local government reorganisation (LGR).

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