Like most councils up and down the country we are unexpectedly Elm worse off than could have been predicted following the latest budget settlement. Although there were no further cutbacks planned for this year (other that those already budgeted for) we have very limited financial flexibility and it will be the same moving into 2016. This now becomes the explicit background to many of the decisions councils are making on spending and service levels affecting internal and external stakeholders Local government as part of the public sector is heading for unprecedented change, requiring us to completely rethink how to manage internal and external stakeholders expectations - including the size of councils, geographical remit, possible mergers with other councils, a need for internal review and changed service levels to residents. There is a need to bring about behaviour change in terms of stakeholders' (employees, members and residents) expectations of a 'town hall' and fixed borough boundaries.
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