Birmingham and Nottingham are in the news for all the wrong reasons as their councils grapple with financial difficulties and the process that goes with s114 status. We look at the growing crisis of local authority finance, the impact on the emergency services and ask whether in an election year, local leaders should be pushing this topic to the top of the agenda.

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Catherine Levin, Editor, Emergency Services Times

Professor Pete Murphy, Professor of Public Policy and Management, Nottingham Trent University

Stuart Hoddinott, Senior Researcher, Institute for Government

When the money runs out: Why emergency services should be concerned about local authority insolvency