Financial Sustainability Read more about Financial Sustainability This data is being published following national and local work we carried out during 2020-21. We hope the tool will help to tell some of the story of local government finances and be useful to anyone who wants to understand a bit more about the position of individual bodies and the local government sector as a whole. This is the first time we’ve collated this data from accounts, and we’ll continue to update the tool after completing our audit of accounts work each year.
Poverty in Wales data tool Read more about Poverty in Wales data tool Our interactive tool accompanies our report: Time for Change – Poverty in Wales, by allowing you to explore some of the data in the report in more detail. The tool brings together a range of data to help councils and their partners improve how they deliver services to people in poverty. The data has been split into the seven dimensions of poverty:
Rough Sleeping in Wales – Everyone’s Problem; No One’s Responsibility Read more about Rough Sleeping in Wales – Everyone’s Problem; No One’s Responsibility
The effectiveness of local planning authorities in Wales Read more about The effectiveness of local planning authorities in Wales
Richard Thurston Read more about Richard Thurston In 2020 Richard was awarded an MBE for services to social science research, the culmination of 30 years undertaking and developing the capacity for high quality applied research aimed at improving public services in Wales. His academic research has included studies of masculinity and crime as well as the implementation of evidence-based practice in the Probation Service.