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Changing your Council Tax Support Scheme: what are others doing?

Janet Harkin

Janet Harkin Published on 18th October 2018

“The key to modelling any change, and I can’t stress this enough, was the Policy in Practice data and the impact on of welfare reform as a whole, and not just our CTR scheme, that gave our Members confidence to go out and suggest the unsuggestable.”

Clive Jones, Luton Borough CouncilListen back to hear guest speaker Clive Jones, Luton Borough Council, talking about why modelling the impacts of different options is the key to designing new CTRS schemes and the importance of member involvement. Zoe Charlesworth gives Universal Credit analysis updates and Juan Alvarez Vilanova outlines the 4 different approaches to modelling that we take.Using Policy in Practice’s Council Tax Reduction Scheme modelling Luton Borough Council was able to give Members detailed and reliable information about how their residents were being impacted by welfare reform, now and the future. We showed the council what the costs of different council tax support schemes would be which gave Members confidence to make difficult decisions about scheme changes.

In this webinar we covered:

  • Background to council tax reduction and trends
  • Luton Borough Council’s scheme with Clive Jones
  • Objectives of CTR schemes and the impact of Universal Credit
  • 4 approaches to modelling CTR schemes
  • Other case studies from local authorities

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