I wasn't at the Brent Council Cabinet last night, but I was interested to read the report on the Council's Council Tax Support scheme. The decision to retain this scheme more or less as originally designed suggests to me that the original design process was robust, which pleases me as I was part of it.
The whole idea of the Council Tax Support Scheme was forced on local authorities. Accompanied by extra cuts, and almost random changes in policy, it was setting Councils like Brent up to fail. Successfully avoiding a legal challenge, and implementing such a difficult policy is a sign of the competence of local government officers in the face of what often appears to be deliberate sabotage by central government.
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