The government is to reduce the New Homes Bonus to free up funding for local authority grants, it announced as part of the provisional local government finance settlement.
More than half of English councils could be at risk of financial failure by 2023 if the Spending Review merely maintains funding levels, a report from financial adviser Grant Thornton has found.
The government must produce a provisional local government finance settlement “immediately” to avoid adding to uncertainty for councils caused by a lack of social care plans, the shadow communities...
