"Another obvious trend that was reflected throughout the country during LTP deliberation was that the local government funding model is not broken — it’s absolutely ruptured.
...
At present in the South Island there are 21 councils, with 21 mayors, ... and work forces still basically shackled to the structure Wellington created for us, to take our communities out of the era of the night cart."

#NZPol #LocalPolitics #CouncilFunding #ThreeWaters

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350340701/entrenched-three-waters-thinking-has-led-waterloo-crisis

"Pulling money from this area is just storing up problems for the future."

#UKpolitics #ClimateChange #CouncilFunding

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy7p2y1p1eo

Hospital discharges limiting home care in England, councils say | Social care | The Guardian

Preventative care losing funding to care packages needed to get people out of hospital

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/16/hospital-discharges-nhs-home-social-care-england-preventive-councils

#SocialCare
#Hospital
#HospitalDischarges
#PreventativeServices
#Funding
#NHS
#NHSBacklog
#AssociationOfDirectorsOfAdultSocialServices
#ADASS
#HomecareAssociation
#LocalGov
#LocalCouncil
#CouncilFunding
#CouncilFundingCrisis

Revealed: hundreds of vulnerable children sent to illegal and unregulated care homes in England | Children | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/13/vulnerable-children-illegal-unregulated-care-homes-england

#Children
#ChildrenInCare
#UnregulatedCareHomes
#ChildrensHome
#ChildrensHomes
#IllegalChildrensHomes
#CareStandardsAct2000
#Ofsted
#DeSouza
#FamilyCourt
#TogetherTrust
#CouncilFunding
#CouncilFundingCuts
#Hunt
#EducationDept
#AssociationOfDirectorsOfChildrensServices

Tories cut council funding down to the bone. Labour must restore it | Local government | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/08/tories-cut-council-funding-down-to-the-bone-labour-must-restore-it

#Tories
#Labour
#CouncilFunding
#LocalGov
#LocalGovFunding
#Hunt
#LocalServices
#ServiceCuts

Failure to fix #CouncilFunding crisis threatens #Tory election pledge, adviser warns

#AndyHaldane, government’s top levelling-up adviser, calls for urgent rethink to prevent deeper cuts across #England
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/17/council-funding-crisis-tory-election-andy-haldane-england
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Austerity #UnderfundingLocalCouncils