Is £7 billion. the body representing councils in england and wales says the sector has a funding gap of £3.4 billion next year.— billion next year. public services are really struggling _ billion next year. public services are really struggling in - are really struggling in the aftermath of the pandemic. they do not currently have enough money, even without cuts, to deal with that aftermath and growing demand, and therefore any other cuts that the government chooses to make is going to have a further detrimental impact on the performance of critical services. :, , , services. the governmen...