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Huge funding gaps mean job and service cuts are inevitable

Council workers should not pay the price for budget problems

Councils need proper and sustained funding, not panicked quick fixes to keep the wolf from the door in an election year

As council budgets are slashed by central government, bankruptcies will continue to increase. Only emergency funding now will save our local services

Finances have been hit by increased spending to deal with COVID and a reduction in income because of the pandemic

UNISON lays down plans to protect service and workers after hearing of members burned out and facing threats and violence

UNISON report shows how austerity is damaging the environmental health service provided by councils

This new insight from those at the heart of decision-making on where money is spent – and axed from budgets – is deeply concerning.

Cash-trapped councils across the country have had no choice but to cut back on culture and libraries spending in a desperate attempt to save core services

That will mean even more cuts to services and further hardship for communities everywhere.

Everyone knows why councils are on the brink of bankruptcy – a massive 41% cut in government funding over a decade, while demand for services has grown. But there is an alternative for a sustainable future for the local services we all rely on

Services at risk unless Westminster sorts council budget crisis

Local councils will need financial support to oversee building projects

Select Committee report urges Government to support councils

Investigation reveals that councils across England have sold public buildings and land to fund basic services and redundancy payments