Colleague Budget Engagement 2024

Overview

The City of Edinburgh Council wants to hear views from colleagues on:

• Where we can save money;
• Where we are doing well; and
• Where we need to improve.

You can participate in this activity even if you are not an Edinburgh resident. Your feedback and suggestions will help us to develop proposals to balance our budget.

Why your views matter

Each year the Council must set a balanced budget that allows us to provide services to the people of Edinburgh, within the money we have available to spend.

Due to increasing demand for services, and higher costs, the Council will have a £143m shortfall in our budget by 2028/29. The graph below shows how our budget shortfall is expected to grow over the next four years. The Council has an annual budget of around £1bn in revenue spending, and has already saved £400m over the last decade.

To meet this shortfall, the Council must find new ways of becoming more efficient, reducing costs, or raising more money. We may have to reduce or stop providing some services. We have already engaged with residents on their priorities and ideas for how we can save money, and you can read the results that were reported to the Finance and Resources Committee in September.

It is also important that we hear the views of our colleagues who are instrumental in delivering our services. Please give us your feedback below.