“Concern among council bosses over whether local authorities will be able to deliver their legal duties has rocketed in the last year, an exclusive survey published today has found.

Amid warnings that the current local government finance system is ‘bust’, more than half of council chief executives, finance bosses and leaders said there was a danger that financial constraints could put their authority in a position where it did not have enough funding to fulfil its statutory duties.”

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