Local government reorganisation impact on services

This report warns that splitting county councils into multiple small unitary councils could impact millions of vulnerable people with worse services, higher costs for care, and not enough staff to deliver support. The County Councils Network, which commissioned the research, say the report’s findings are a warning for the government if it does not stick to its original plans of creating councils with populations over half a million, with the first wave of councils submitting competing proposals to ministers two weeks ago. The network argues that these plans to overhaul local government structures will make or break care services depending on which proposals ministers decide to implement.