Angus Council Budget Consultation 2026-27

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Balancing delivering services that most people want, while providing support that some people need

As we plan our budget for 2026/27 Angus Council continues to face one of the most challenging financial periods in its history. Rising costs, increasing demand for services, and real-terms reductions in grant funding mean we must make difficult decisions about how we allocate our limited resources. This consultation is your opportunity to influence those decisions.

As ever, we need to find a balance between delivering services that most people want, while providing support that some people need such as social work services, welfare support, personal care for older people and those with additional needs.

Why we are consulting

We want to hear from you—our residents, businesses, and community partners—about what matters most. Your feedback will help shape the final budget and decisions on how the Council will allocate the limited funds available.

Our financial position

  • Huge savings: Over the past 12 years we have saved £100m from our budget through our change programme. We have had to close, reduce, or change the way we deliver services. Many of these changes have been internal but the services we can deliver to the public have also been affected.
  • Estimated budget gap: This is the difference between our expected income and what we think it will cost to deliver the same services as now – for 2026/27 this is £10.440 million, and we need to save this amount by reducing or cutting services and/or increasing council tax and other fees and charges.
  • Total provisional grant funding: The anticipated amount of money we will receive from Scottish Government is just over £300 million which includes any money that is “ring-fenced” for special items to meet Scottish Government priorities such as maintaining teacher numbers at levels set by Scottish Government.
  • Council Tax: 81% of our net income comes directly from Scottish Government with 19% coming from Council Tax. The only part of that income we can change is Council Tax so that is an important part of budget decisions.
  • Savings to date: As we said, by March 2026 over £100 million will have been saved since 2013/14. This has largely been met by using new technology, reducing staff numbers, reducing the number of Council buildings, increasing fees and charges, changing how services are provided to make them more efficient or stopping some services altogether. We’ve done this whilst still providing all of the services the Council legally has to provide but the funds now available mean our ability to do everything we are required to do is severely stretched.
  • Statutory Functions: Most of our total budget is spent on the services we are legally required to deliver by both UK and Scottish Governments, like social work services, social care, schools and school transport, etc.

To meet our estimated budget gap this year, we will need to make further savings from services and consider increases to council tax and other charges. Therefore, it is important that we understand what you really want us to focus on, with the resources that we still have.

Our priorities

The Angus Council Plan and the Angus Community Plan set out our vision:

“Angus is a great place to live, work and visit.”

We are now halfway through the delivery of our current council plan, and we are taking this opportunity to refocus and restate our priorities, so we’d like to get your views on some key areas in that plan.

How to take part

You can complete the consultation:

  • Online by completing the survey below
  • In person at libraries and ACCESS offices across Angus
  • By post using the printed survey available on request

The consultation closes on Friday 16 January 2026.

Balancing delivering services that most people want, while providing support that some people need

As we plan our budget for 2026/27 Angus Council continues to face one of the most challenging financial periods in its history. Rising costs, increasing demand for services, and real-terms reductions in grant funding mean we must make difficult decisions about how we allocate our limited resources. This consultation is your opportunity to influence those decisions.

As ever, we need to find a balance between delivering services that most people want, while providing support that some people need such as social work services, welfare support, personal care for older people and those with additional needs.

Why we are consulting

We want to hear from you—our residents, businesses, and community partners—about what matters most. Your feedback will help shape the final budget and decisions on how the Council will allocate the limited funds available.

Our financial position

  • Huge savings: Over the past 12 years we have saved £100m from our budget through our change programme. We have had to close, reduce, or change the way we deliver services. Many of these changes have been internal but the services we can deliver to the public have also been affected.
  • Estimated budget gap: This is the difference between our expected income and what we think it will cost to deliver the same services as now – for 2026/27 this is £10.440 million, and we need to save this amount by reducing or cutting services and/or increasing council tax and other fees and charges.
  • Total provisional grant funding: The anticipated amount of money we will receive from Scottish Government is just over £300 million which includes any money that is “ring-fenced” for special items to meet Scottish Government priorities such as maintaining teacher numbers at levels set by Scottish Government.
  • Council Tax: 81% of our net income comes directly from Scottish Government with 19% coming from Council Tax. The only part of that income we can change is Council Tax so that is an important part of budget decisions.
  • Savings to date: As we said, by March 2026 over £100 million will have been saved since 2013/14. This has largely been met by using new technology, reducing staff numbers, reducing the number of Council buildings, increasing fees and charges, changing how services are provided to make them more efficient or stopping some services altogether. We’ve done this whilst still providing all of the services the Council legally has to provide but the funds now available mean our ability to do everything we are required to do is severely stretched.
  • Statutory Functions: Most of our total budget is spent on the services we are legally required to deliver by both UK and Scottish Governments, like social work services, social care, schools and school transport, etc.

To meet our estimated budget gap this year, we will need to make further savings from services and consider increases to council tax and other charges. Therefore, it is important that we understand what you really want us to focus on, with the resources that we still have.

Our priorities

The Angus Council Plan and the Angus Community Plan set out our vision:

“Angus is a great place to live, work and visit.”

We are now halfway through the delivery of our current council plan, and we are taking this opportunity to refocus and restate our priorities, so we’d like to get your views on some key areas in that plan.

How to take part

You can complete the consultation:

  • Online by completing the survey below
  • In person at libraries and ACCESS offices across Angus
  • By post using the printed survey available on request

The consultation closes on Friday 16 January 2026.

  • Key questions for you

    Last year's budget consultation revealed some interesting insights about the community's perception of the council's role in Angus and showed that we need to be better at explaining what we do and don’t do, and what we can, and can’t change.

    This year, we want to focus on some of the areas where policy decisions made at Council affect your everyday lives, so we can hear your views to help us make the right decisions for the people of Angus.

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