British Council budgets are on a road to nowhere

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The financial pressure on local authorities is soaring and across the UK, local government reform is hitting the headlines as councils react to growing service demands and reducing Council budgets. In the recent budget Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond announced he would be allocating £420 million to repairing potholes on council-owned roads. Whilst welcome, the money needs to be spent in this financial year and it raises the question of whether more should be done to help councils prepare for problems in the first place, rather than react to them afterwards.