And Main Priorities for 2021
Although Covid has dominated the headlines over the last year, the pandemic hasn’t stopped other issues remaining crucial to those in front line public services.
The challenges facing the councils we spoke to ranged from relying on volunteers more due to a lack of staff, to remote workers putting a strain on the council’s VPN service.
However we found the councils’ most common challenges were split into six separate areas:
Unsurprisingly, considering the varied demographics across which our local councils operate, priorities differed as much as the challenges did. That said, there were seven shared areas of focus for 2021: