Protecting key council services 'increasingly challenging', finance chief admits

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Alastair MacArthur, director of finance and resources, offered a frank assessment of the cash crisis facing the local authority.

Renfrewshire Council has tried to protect frontline services “as far as possible” in the last decade but doing so is becoming “increasingly challenging”, a senior officer has admitted.

“It says, ‘It is highly unlikely that savings at this scale can be delivered without the council reprioritising spend, impacting on the ability to deliver all current service levels in their current form, breadth or scale.’ That means cuts?” Download the free Renfrewshire Live app today Renfrewshire Live, the new free app dedicated to bringing you around the clock breaking news, is now available to download.

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