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SCOTTISH councils are facing “increasingly difficult choices” on spending, with two-thirds planning to use cash reserves this year, a new report published today warns.
The Accounts Commission said that a “budget gap” between income and spending of £0.4 billion would force local authorities to dip into financial reserves — which is “not sustainable in the medium to long term.”
The total debt of the 32 councils north of the border has also increased by £0.3bn to a whopping £19bn, the public body said.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR