Pro-Poor or Pro-Rich? The social impact of local government budgets, 2016-17 to 2018-19

Author: Maria Gannon, Ailsa Burn-Murdoch, Andrew Aiton, Nick Bailey, Glen Bramley, Allan Campbell, Kayleigh Finnigan, Annette Hastings, Alex O Conor

PDF Published: Friday 07 Dec 2018 (SB 18-82)

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Overview
Report
- Executive summary
  - Background and context
  - Summary of main findings
    
    Expenditure
    
    Savings plans
    
    Savings as a share of expenditure
    
    Budget pressure
    
    Policy commitments and ring-fencing
    
    Case studies
- About the project
- The social impact tool
  - Development of the tool
  - Service classification – what makes a service Pro-Rich, Neutral or Pro-Poor?
- Data sources and methodology
  - Data sources
    
    Expenditure
    
    Savings plans
  - Methodology
- Local government budget - context
  - Local government settlement 2015-16 to 2018-19
  - Council tax income
- Findings: Analysis of local authorities' savings plans 2018-19
  - Introduction
    
    Section 1: Local authority expenditure
    
    Local authority expenditure 2018-19
    
    Local authority expenditure by deprivation group
    
    Local authority expenditure 2016-17 to 2018-19
    
    Section 2: Local authority savings plans
    
    Local authority savings 2018-19
    
    Local authority savings by deprivation group
    
    Local authority savings 2016-17 to 2018-19
    
    Section 3: Local authority savings as share of expenditure
    
    Local authority savings as a share of expenditure 2018-19
    
    Local authority savings as a share of expenditure by deprivation group
    
    Local authority savings as a share of expenditure 2016-17 to 2018-19
    
    Section 4: Local authority savings plans compared with budget pressure
    
    Budget Pressure 2018-19
    
    Change in budget pressure over time
- Policy commitments and ring-fencing
- Case Studies
  - Dundee
    
    Local conditions and challenges
    
    Politics, policies and plans
    
    Budget challenges
    
    Savings plans
    
    Key challenges
    
    Summary of challenges
  - Fife
    
    Local conditions and challenges
    
    Politics, policies and plans
    
    Budget challenges
    
    Savings plans
    
    Key challenges
    
    Summary of challenges
  - North Ayrshire
    
    Local conditions and challenges
    
    Politics, policies and plans
    
    Budget challenges
    
    Savings plans
    
    Key challenges
    
    Summary of challenges
  - Common messages from the case studies
- Annex A – Pro-Rich and Pro-Poor classification
- Annex B – Local authorities grouped by budget pressure
- Annex C – Local Authority Budget Documents
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- Related briefings
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Image: Figure 4 – Classification of services – examples

Image: Figure 5: Scottish local government expenditure on Pro-Rich and Pro-Poor services 2018-19

Image: Figure 8: Scottish local government savings 2018-19

Image: Figure 11: Scotland savings by service type, as a percentage of expenditure 2018-19

Image: Figure 14: Local authorities grouped by budget pressure 2018-19

Image: Figure 6: Local authority expenditure 2018-19 by deprivation grouping

Image: Figure 7: Change in expenditure 2016-17 to 2018-19

Image: Figure 9: Local authority savings 2018-19 by deprivation grouping

Image: Figure 10: Change in savings 2016-17 to 2018-19

Image: Figure 12: Local authority savings as a share of expenditure by deprivation grouping 2018-19

Image: Figure 13: Change in savings by expenditure 2016-17 to 2018-19

Image: Figure 15: Change in budget pressure 2016-17 to 2018-19

Image: Figure 1: Scotland expenditure 2018-19

Image: Figure 2: Scotland savings 2018-19

Image: Figure 3: Scotland savings as a percentage of expenditure

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