George Dawson’s civic vision stressed that local leaders must deliver beauty, dignity, health, and order to communities, a stark contrast to today’s council realities.
Councils in England are burdened by funding cuts which have constrained their ability to provide essential services, crippling community life with a cull of social spaces.
The Demos thinktank highlights that statutory obligations and rising care costs leave councils unable to fund public goods, creating a cycle of social decline.
Despite a budget increase from the chancellor, much deeper reforms are needed to rescue local authority finances, neglected for over a decade by central government.
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