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Budget 26 – the fallout
In which I reflect on Trafford’s Budget Meeting, the culmination of a process where the government has provided borrowing facilities in place of funding councils in a commuter belt stretching from Southport to Worcestershire.
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Sciencing Health
My lay person’s report on the research presentations I received at Wythenshawe Hospital this week on our Governor Development Day.
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Setting Trafford’s Budget Pt 8 The Budget is published.
In which the budget is published in readiness for the budget meetings and your writer calls out an unfair settlement from Government.
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How are other councils doing?
In which a rain-check is taken on the council areas that border Trafford’s to see how they’re faring against the Government’s new financial regime.
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Setting Trafford’s Budget Pt 7
On learning the Governments final financial settlement for Trafford, the public reaction and worries for the future.
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Getting tetchy!
Reflections on a week when the nervous tension over the Council’s financial position came to a boil, whilst the wait continued.