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Calderdale aims to use fair funding boost to ‘change narrative’

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With a welcome expected uplift from the fair funding review, Calderdale Council is using its budget for 2026/27 to “change the narrative, and change what we do in the council”, according to council leader Jane Scullion.

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The budget’s emphasis is on efficiencies, she tells Room151, but also on transformation, “to actually use the money as invest to save, particularly around

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