Council Failure

I said Northamptonshire was the “canary”. This story tells us:

A Conservative-controlled council has called on the government to sort out its “broken” funding system, and claimed it was not going to go down the same path as Northamptonshire council after reports claimed the authority was at risk of going bust.

A fall in government funding alongside rising costs to social overheads such as children’s services —found in a formal peer review earlier in the year — have led to claims from The Guardian that a failure to balance the books could lead to Somerset County Council to collapse.