The Public Accounts Committee has reported that a number of local authorities could face financial collapse, in the sense of no longer performing their legal duties. What surprised me is that although this has all been widely debated for years now, the Department of Communities and Local Government has no plan for what it will do when it occurs. One of the possible collapses is said to be Birmingham, so it is not a marginal issue.
The report also confirms that the government does not understand what the implications of the various changes the Tory/liberal government have forced through actually are. That probably means it is in breach of of it's equalities duties, and perhaps even that it has acted irrationally in a legal sense. I don't suppose it will be taken to court for this, but it does suggest that the quality of Eric Pickles decision making is not the greatest.
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