Research by Andy Pike and Jack Shaw underlines the scale of strains social care is placing on local government financing.

“Councils are in historically unprecedented territory, with many of them now forced to provide skeleton services in order to meet their legal responsibility to balance their books – Jack Shaw, Affiliated Researcher, Bennett Institute for Public Policy”
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