Cheshire East Council will ask for more than £50m over the next two years. The authority, which signed off a multimillion-pound cost cutting plan over the summer, is set to ask the government for support of up to £31.4m for next year and £23.7m for the year after. The leader, Labour’s Nick Mannion, said the figures were “very much worse case scenario”. The Local Government Association expects one in four councils to require emergency support over the next two financial years. Cheshire East Council asked for £17.6m in exceptional financial support last year, but has not drawn it down yet. The government has asked the council to submit a request by 13 December.
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