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In typically restrained language the Conservative controlled Local Government Association has warned the government that the continuing slashing of funding for the work of local authorities in England is unsustainable. The government already knows this. The National Audit Office issued a stronger warning back in 2014. But this is a government which is as careless as it is incompetent and uncaring.
In response to a report on the Department of Communities and Local Government concerning local authorities in England (NAO, Financial sustainability of local authorities 2014, 19 November 2014), the Comptroller and Auditor General concluded:
