By April 2015, local authorities within the UK will have faced and be expected to resolve yet more cost reduction, adsorb more budget reduction yet be under greater pressure than ever to provide increasing results to their stakeholders and to the public.   

For the majority, resources have already been streamlined, costs reduced as much as possible, the immediate impact of reduced services experienced, and softer resources such as technology and the sharing of internal services have been or are being rationalised.