{"id":118165,"date":"2023-08-21T11:13:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T11:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lasixlineon.com\/?p=118165"},"modified":"2023-08-21T11:13:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T11:13:02","slug":"councils-in-crisis-check-how-bad-budget-deficit-is-in-your-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lasixlineon.com\/politics\/councils-in-crisis-check-how-bad-budget-deficit-is-in-your-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Councils in crisis: Check how bad budget deficit is in YOUR area"},"content":{"rendered":"

Labour caught using former councillor as member of public<\/h3>\n

The average local authority in the UK will face a \u00a333million budget deficit within the next two years, according to new research \u2013 a 60 percent increase from two years ago.<\/p>\n

The BBC Shared Data Unit survey of 190 councils found an extra \u00a35.2billion will be needed nationwide to break even by the 2025 to 2026 financial year.<\/p>\n

This comes in spite of widespread council tax rises this year \u2013 which three-quarters of those analysed did by five percent or more \u2013 resulting in a scramble for savings. Town Halls have planned to make \u00a32.5billion in cuts this financial year alone.<\/p>\n

Trade union UNISON has warned some councils will soon be unable to provide the most basic of services as their finances are \u201cin the direst of states.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE: <\/strong> Rising council tax rates place unsustainable burden on households<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thurrock Council in Essex has the largest predicted budget deficit of all at \u00a3521million by April 2026.<\/p>\n

In proportional terms, however, the \u00a3339million shortfall expected in Slough is greater than anywhere else, at 237.1 percent of their 2023\/24 net spend.<\/p>\n

The two local authorities have both raised council tax by just under ten percent this year, and borrowed emergency money from central Government.<\/p>\n

In monetary terms, they were followed by Glasgow City (\u00a3196million), Kent (\u00a3142million) and Hampshire (\u00a3132million).<\/p>\n

Use the interactive table below to see the state of your local council’s finances.<\/p>\n

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Councillor Shaun Davies, Chair of the Local Government Association (LGA), said: \u201cInflation, the National Living Wage, energy costs and ongoing increasing demand for services are all adding billions of extra costs onto councils just to keep services standing still.<\/p>\n

\u201cCouncils are having to make cutbacks to services to meet their legal duty to balance the books this year and using reserves to plug funding gaps.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just over 94 percent of the councils in the study budgeted to make savings this financial year.<\/p>\n

On average, these came to \u00a313.9million per council, a 36 percent increase since the 2021\/22 financial year.<\/p>\n

According to the BBC, Thurrock Council is reducing street cleaning, ending \u201cnon-statutory\u201d youth work, withdrawing subsidies for three bus routes and dimming street lights as part of its drive to make up the unprecedented shortfall.<\/p>\n

Hampshire County Council is set to make the most savings overall in the UK (\u00a380million), followed by Surrey (\u00a369million) and Norfolk (\u00a360 million).<\/p>\n

In South Gloucestershire, cuts could see black bins collected just once a month, a proposal described by the Opposition as \u201ccrazy and irresponsible\u201d.<\/p>\n

The largest share of savings, however, will come from adult social care services \u2013 18 percent of the total for councils in England and Wales.<\/p>\n

Mike Short, Head of Local Government at UNISON said social services directors warned recently that councils \u201cprobably can’t offer even the legal minimum of care support next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

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