Some 37 local authorities will be issued with £1.9bn in exceptional financial support (EFS), allowing them to use capital funding to cover day-to-day costs.
The Government said it was ‘determined to begin to break the cycle?of increasing numbers of councils entering EFS through its funding reforms’ but the numbers were up on the £1.5bn approved for 30 local authorities last year.
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