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CTSI is urging the Government to protect local councils hit by the COVID-19 lockdown
Posted 30 June 2020 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Inside Trading Standards|National
UPDATES: CTSI urges Government action to prevent financially stretched councils from issuing emergency spending controls, warning that reduced local authority capacity could seriously affect essential trading standards services.
The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) is asking the Government to support councils struggling to pay the bills in the wake of the COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown.
Five councils have declared that they might need to issue emergency spending controls, known as section 114 notices, due to the impact of lockdown on local government income. The notices are effectively a form of bankru...
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