An Attempt to Shed Some Light for Residents
You may have heard that Hillingdon Council is in financial difficulty, with a cabinet member stating on national media that “we’ve run out of money”.
Council finances are a complex issue, so together with HARA (the Hillingdon Alliance of Residents’ Associations) and all of the other residents’ associations around our borough, we have done our best to create a readable, non-partisan look at what has been happening over the last year, and what may happen in the near future.
Read more in our special series of articles:
- Hillingdon Council risks going bankrupt before March and is seeking a government bailout
- Glossary of names and terms
- A Timeline of Warnings, Shifting Explanations, and Internal Failures
- Hillingdon Council isn’t going bankrupt because of the cost of asylum seekers, refugees, Chagossians or aliens
- What Has Actually Gone Wrong? The Three Core Failures
- The London Councils video: A smokescreen for a local failure?
- The Council’s Financial Crisis Explained
- A “Bailout” Explained: What is Exceptional Financial Support?
- If the council goes bankrupt, what differences would residents see?
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