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Conrad Hall: what next for local authority funding?
“What is to be Done?” about the current crisis in local authority funding? That’s the question Conrad Hall, quoting Lenin, left us with in the first of a two-part article written for Room151. In this concluding piece, the corporate director of resources at the London Borough of Newham attempts to answer that question.
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