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       Liverpool City Council handed back decision-making powers
        
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       "We have sufficient confidence in the council that these powers can be
       handed back and that further support can be offered by way of an
       independent board," he said.
        
       Certain functions will be returned to local politicians on 9 June but
       government intervention will continue to be in place until March 2025.
        
       In a statement, the Minister for Local Government Simon Hoare said
       although there had been "significant improvement" in many areas, the
       council "had started from a very low base and there was slow progress
       in the first half of the intervention".
        
       He said while new leadership had sped up improvements "significantly"
       there had not been sufficient time to show improvements "are embedded
       throughout the council".
        
       He said government intervention would continue in the form of a
       statutory assurance and improvement board.
        
       The board will:
        
         * require the council to undertake specific actions in relation to p
        
        
        
        
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