The Scottish Government has been warned that local services could grind to a halt without more help as local councils face a £1 billion spending crisis.
West Lothian’s Director of Finance, Donald Forrest, has joined colleagues across Scotland in putting his name to an unprecedented warning letter to the Depute First Minister John Swinney.
The letter, signed by finance chiefs from all 32 councils, is uncompromising in the blunt language it uses about the threat to public services posed by spending constraints which come on the back of more than a decade of slashed budgets.
