Delighted that this is kind of ten minutes down the road from us. We just feel, i suppose, let down, and why wasnt anything in place to prevent this situation happening . There will now be no new spending save on services to safeguard the vulnerable until the next financial year. Weve been in what you might call a perfect storm of huge increases in demand for our services, at the same time, significant reductions in funding coming from Central Government. But is this a one off . English councils say by the end of the decade they will have seen £16 billion cut from their core Central Government funding. They say by 2020 there will bea funding. They say by 2020 there will be a £5. 8 billion annual shortfall. Whats more, they say they need an additional £1. 3 billion now for social care. Ministers will point to much needed efficiency savings made in the same period, but labour says its time for change. After nearly eight years of conservative government, councils have lost 50 of theirf