UNITE general secretary Sharon Graham will address a protest calling for fairer council funding outside Parliament on Monday.

More than 50 council workers including striking Birmingham bin workers will attend the event.

It is part of the union’s Fair Funding Now for Local Government campaign calling for an overhaul of how local authorities are funded to prevent further bankruptcies and job and public service cuts.

Unite has warned that local government debt, which has doubled since 2010 to £122 billion, is ”spiralling out of control” and called for council funding to be ”urgently restructured.”

Ms Graham said that hundreds of local authorities are heading towards bankruptcy while paying inflated interest rates to the Treasury.

”This Labour government now needs to do the right thing, restructure the debt and fund local government fairly,” she said.

Last month, Labour MP Jon Trickett tabled an early-day motion calling on the government to restructure local authority debt.