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Services at risk unless Westminster sorts council budget crisis

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

Huge funding gaps mean job and service cuts are inevitable

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

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

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

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