Trafford new council leader Tom Ross is to lobby Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for a fairer funding system for the borough as it continues to buckle under the strain of financial pressures. The authority has been forced to cut vital community services and support as it strenuously tries to balance the books due to austerity year after year.
Trafford is one of several authorities across the country collectively demanding a £300million temporary fix to level up local government finances. The council has joined the F20 – a cross-party group of councils fighting for the funding floor to be set at 90 per cent of the average core spending power to level up local government finance in the lowest funded authorities.
If agreed, Trafford would receive an additional £5.7m each year. Coun Jill Axford, who represents Davyhulme East Ward, tabled a motion during Trafford's full council meeting saying the levels of austerity all the authorities are experiencing are both 'unfair and unjustified'.
