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What are the long-term implications of COVID-19 on local government funding?

Richard Young

Posted 30 June 2020 | JoTS Online


Content Tags:  Analysis|Inside Trading Standards|National


ANALYSIS: A discussion of austerity, COVID-19 and the future of local government funding, considering what the pandemic could mean for already stretched trading standards services.

<strong>Austerity has clearly had a detrimental impact on local government resources over the past decade. Do you think COVID-19 will further hit funding of local government services such as trading standards?</strong>

In the short term, central government has gone some way to recognise the additional cost impact which COVID-19 is having on local government, although the repor...

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