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The LGR playbook: Stabilising services, modelling council tax and allocating Crisis and Resilience Funding Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) presents merging authorities with two challenges: harmonising conflicting Council Tax Reduction (CTR) schemes without worsening Britain's record £9.3bn council tax debt (up 12% since last year) and allocating the DWP’s new Crisis and Resilience Fund (CRF), all the while maintaining vital support during the transition.

This webinar will provide an LGR success blueprint. We will demonstrate how to run a dedicated Council Tax modelling project to design your CTR scheme and leverage the LIFT (Low Income Family Tracker) dashboard to combine datasets during the transition. Discover how LIFT gives you an uninterrupted view of poverty and financial resilience in your new territory, allowing you to seamlessly allocate crisis funding and accurately design your new overarching programs and services.

Join us to hear from local authority speakers, including Nikitta Vanterpool, Anti Poverty Strategic Lead at Cambridgeshire County Council.

We will discuss two crucial elements for transitioning authorities:

1. Harmonising CTR
Merging rules without forecasting impact threatens collection rates and causes income shocks. Before altering policies, councils can use cross-boundary data to simulate banded schemes, model resident financial impacts and protect revenues before going live.

2. Allocating CRF
As services shift and systems merge, LIFT gives councils a single, unified view of poverty and financial resilience across the new boundary. This helps them direct CRF support faster and design targeted long-term services from day one.

Join us to learn how to:
• De-risk CTR changes: Test schemes to find one fit for purpose with a dedicated modelling project.
• Maintain service continuity through LGR: Combine data so teams never lose visibility of households.
• Replicate HSF success for CRF: Shift from reactive applications to automated distribution and get the funding to residents faster.
• Design the next generation of local support using LIFT’s comprehensive insights