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Town hall bosses in Oldham are facing a possible £20m budget hole, a report has confirmed.

Based on the council’s current spending, the local authority could face a £20.822m deficit by the end of the financial year. Council officers issued an ‘early warning’ in a report brought in front of a cabinet meeting on Monday, September 22.

Councillor Abdul Jabbar, Cabinet Member for Finance, Corporate Services and Sustainability, said: “It is a significant amount of overspend. We have been looking at this and taking all kind of action to make sure that we manage it and hopefully get rid of it in its totality.

“It is very difficult because of the pressures we’ve been feeling in adult social care, children’s services, and temporary accommodation. But we’re working very, very hard t

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