1. The Layfield Report: Central,Local or Middle Way?

S. Pratt , Educational Administration, Vol. 5, No.1, pp.67-70, Autumn 1976.

Viewpoint , Public Finance and Accountancy , Vol.3, No.11, pp.331. November 1976 .

A.C.L. Day , Local Government Finance, (The Layfield Report), Cmnd. 6453. para. 2, p.302, HMSO, May 1976.

ibid, para 19, p.70.

T. Cheetham, Public Finance and Accountancy, Vol.3 No.10, p.320, October 1976 (Mr. Cheetham is Director of Finance, London Borough of Sutton).

B. Stevenson, ibid., p.315 (Mr. Stevenson is County Treasurer, Cleve land.

Local Government Finance , op cit., para 13, p.52

Local Government Finance: The Rate Support Grant Order 1976, HC 26, HMSO, December 1976.

H. Mansfield, Public Finance and Accountancy, op cit., pp.341-3, November 1976. (Mr. Mansfield is Chief Executive, Cardiff).

The question of equalisation, by way of grant aid, is considerably more difficult to solve than might appear at first sight. Devotees of the subject are referred to a thoughtful article by Graeme Lee of CIPFA's Technical Support Services, see Public Finance and Accountancy, Vol.3, No.12, pp.369-72, December 1976.

Local Government Finance , op cit., para. 16, p.309.

ibid, para 42, p. 62.