{"id":987084,"date":"2026-05-27T02:12:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/987084\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T02:12:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:12:33","slug":"fair-funding-have-rural-councils-in-england-really-lost-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/987084\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Funding: Have rural councils in England really lost out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Government announced the first multi-year local government finance settlement in more than a decade in February, members of the public could be forgiven for thinking it would be well-received.<\/p>\n<p>But, for many rural councils, Fair Funding 2.0 was far from it. The reallocation of funding meant direct cuts to government grants and further reliance on raising council tax to make up the shortfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Government announced the first multi-year local government finance settlement in more than a decade in February,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":987085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5008],"tags":[11850,748,3737,393,274431,474,4884,274432,16,15],"class_list":["post-987084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-england","tag-austerity","tag-britain","tag-county-councils","tag-england","tag-fair-funding","tag-finance","tag-great-britain","tag-localis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116644121681869597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}