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#public-services

The financial report indicates that the council could ask the government for permission to raise council tax by 8.99 per cent from April 2026. If it does, it would be the second such increase in a row after Newham council tax went up by 8.99 per cent in April this year. The proposal is one of a package of suggestions presented to the council's cabinet when it meets next Thursday.

The study, conducted by Assembly Research, evaluated the costs, risks and potential gains from digital migration across energy, water, health (NHS), emergency services and local government. It accounted for the direct cost of upgrading, as well as the rising expense of maintaining legacy systems like the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and the 2G mobile network - both decades old and increasingly challenging to support. Data from UK comms regulator Ofcom shows that resilience incidents on the PSTN have risen by 45%, underscoring the urgency of change.

Euan Blair, Founder and CEO of Multiverse, said the rise of this "invisible" AI workforce shows the crucial role non-tech professions are playing in broader adoption rates. "Clinicians and council workers are just as integral to driving AI adoption as software engineers and data analysts," he said. "They are the ones finding practical ways to apply this technology to real-world problems, yet they're often a second order consideration."

The burden on school and college leaders and teachers has reached an unprecedented level, a leading teaching union has warned, as schools are increasingly forced to run food banks and support families with housing due to under-funded public services "crumbling around them". A report by the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) said these vital services are important, but cannot continue to be the sole responsibility of schools and teachers.

The West Wusutu Village Community Center serves as a multifunctional facility designed to alleviate the lack of public services in the village, emphasizing community needs.

New York has lost an estimated $600 billion since it fully rebated the Stock Transfer Tax in 1981, impacting funding for crucial public services.

City Council considered a possible tax rate election to address Austin's $33 million deficit with a proposed budget of $6.3 million. The maximum increase could be 8 cents.

The world’s most important financial watchdog has warned that Chancellor Rachel Reeves will likely break a key party manifesto pledge by hiking taxes or cutting public services.

A Department of Home Affairs employee in Paarl was bitten and assaulted by a male client who became aggressive over document submission, resulting in the office's closure.

They are in a deep hole of their own creation on staffing and so you just don't have enough people to go around to serve the public.

Transportation can be affordable or even 'free' if we rethink the assumptions baked into our infrastructure and business models.

Despite concerns from regulators regarding its financial situation, Affinity Water has doubled the pay of its chief executive, Keith Haslett, to 1.6 million for the 2024-25 financial year, up from 709,000 the prior year.

Oxfordshire County Council has successfully fulfilled its GigaHubs initiative to enhance digital connectivity across 192 of the county's rural and public service sites.

Young people living in the most deprived stretches of England's coastline are three times more likely to be living with an undiagnosed mental health condition than their peers inland.

Britain is characterized by an overwhelming sense of disarray, where everyday essentials become increasingly expensive while public services falter, leaving citizens frustrated.

Under the circumstances there are no good options.

"The goal is to create additional capacity to fund services, infrastructure and other needs that aren't included in this budget," Lee said at the meeting.

For the first time in history, the Miami-Dade Tax Collector's Office will open a permanent location in the City of Coral Gables.

'The budget is legally balanced, but the town has a structural imbalance which will grow if not addressed,' Constantin said.

The federal government has made little progress in getting rid of underused office space and must do more to halve its portfolio over the next decade.