This is good but also they need to keep up the levels in the areas actually paying otherwise people will get very angry.
Astriania on
Tories come up with a funding model that favours Tory councils.
Labour come up with a funding model that favours Labour councils.
Well, what a surprise.
MaxCherry64 on
How do you define “rich”… How about labour start in their strongholds i.e. LONDON.
I suppose Hastings and Ramsgate are rich yeah? South East so much be rich. Lol this country is going to shit
AnotherKTa on
I’ve never really understood why things like social care are funded based on the geographic area from council tax, which creates a hugely unequal situation depending on demographics, rather than from general taxation.
We don’t expect council tax to fund all the hospitals in an area, so why do we do expect it for for care?
Mean_Permission_1109 on
Basic public services shouldn’t be a postcode lottery, take all the council tax and dived it proportionately to each council.
Substantial_Trade876 on
Buying votes in labour seats. Call it what it is.
Trouble is, there aren’t enough such seats to win an election with, and they already vote Labour anyway.
BestButtons on
> A new £600m recovery grant will be targeted at England’s most deprived towns and cities, mainly in the north and Midlands, alongside longer-term “fair funding” plans intended to rebalance council funding away from the more affluent south-east.
And they acknowledge that
> “The government is under no illusions about the scale of the issues facing local government, and this settlement will begin to address the pressures that councils are under. But this is a long-term project to deliver financial security for councils, and we recognise that we may see some continued instability as we adjust to the new system.”
But that will be ignored because things weren’t magically sorted yesterday. I hope the benefits are being seen before the next election.
> An extra £250m for children’s social care, aimed at new initiatives to support families and reduce the numbers of children being taken into care will be introduced in April and targeted at councils where child protection services are under most pressure.
Again, investing for the long term benefit. We won’t see the real impact for a long time, but worth every penny.
> Plans to move to three-year funding agreements for councils, changes to business rates, and the removal of many of the grant funding pots introduced under last government will be brought forward to try to stabilise and simplify council finances.
This is excellent news, now councils can plan on longer term when they know what they will get a few years ahead instead of waiting every year wondering will they be able to afford to continue with them.
> David Phillips, of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said: “The changes made for the coming year suggest these longer-term changes will also have an emphasis on redistributing funding to more deprived areas, **to offset cuts they bore the brunt of during the 2010s**. Whether that is fair will be in the eye of the beholder.”
Yeah, many will be complaining that they have to give something back.
> Kevin Hollinrake, the shadow local government secretary, said: “They are also sticking two fingers up to rural areas through the scrapping of the rural services delivery grant and almost certainly reallocating it to Labour strongholds. If you thought Labour had finished taxing you, think again.”
And Tories managed to get all current buzzwords in two brief sentences. Watch this being repeated ad nauseam in the well known Tory papers.
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The inverse of what [Sunak bragged about doing](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62436193) when he ran for Tory leader.
This is good but also they need to keep up the levels in the areas actually paying otherwise people will get very angry.
Tories come up with a funding model that favours Tory councils.
Labour come up with a funding model that favours Labour councils.
Well, what a surprise.
How do you define “rich”… How about labour start in their strongholds i.e. LONDON.
I suppose Hastings and Ramsgate are rich yeah? South East so much be rich. Lol this country is going to shit
I’ve never really understood why things like social care are funded based on the geographic area from council tax, which creates a hugely unequal situation depending on demographics, rather than from general taxation.
We don’t expect council tax to fund all the hospitals in an area, so why do we do expect it for for care?
Basic public services shouldn’t be a postcode lottery, take all the council tax and dived it proportionately to each council.
Buying votes in labour seats. Call it what it is.
Trouble is, there aren’t enough such seats to win an election with, and they already vote Labour anyway.
> A new £600m recovery grant will be targeted at England’s most deprived towns and cities, mainly in the north and Midlands, alongside longer-term “fair funding” plans intended to rebalance council funding away from the more affluent south-east.
And they acknowledge that
> “The government is under no illusions about the scale of the issues facing local government, and this settlement will begin to address the pressures that councils are under. But this is a long-term project to deliver financial security for councils, and we recognise that we may see some continued instability as we adjust to the new system.”
But that will be ignored because things weren’t magically sorted yesterday. I hope the benefits are being seen before the next election.
> An extra £250m for children’s social care, aimed at new initiatives to support families and reduce the numbers of children being taken into care will be introduced in April and targeted at councils where child protection services are under most pressure.
Again, investing for the long term benefit. We won’t see the real impact for a long time, but worth every penny.
> Plans to move to three-year funding agreements for councils, changes to business rates, and the removal of many of the grant funding pots introduced under last government will be brought forward to try to stabilise and simplify council finances.
This is excellent news, now councils can plan on longer term when they know what they will get a few years ahead instead of waiting every year wondering will they be able to afford to continue with them.
> David Phillips, of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said: “The changes made for the coming year suggest these longer-term changes will also have an emphasis on redistributing funding to more deprived areas, **to offset cuts they bore the brunt of during the 2010s**. Whether that is fair will be in the eye of the beholder.”
Yeah, many will be complaining that they have to give something back.
> Kevin Hollinrake, the shadow local government secretary, said: “They are also sticking two fingers up to rural areas through the scrapping of the rural services delivery grant and almost certainly reallocating it to Labour strongholds. If you thought Labour had finished taxing you, think again.”
And Tories managed to get all current buzzwords in two brief sentences. Watch this being repeated ad nauseam in the well known Tory papers.