Budget 2026-2027
Liverpool City Council has now set its budget for 2026-27. It will see an additional £100 million invested in services over the coming year.
Around £90 million extra is set to be pumped into demand-led services such as adult social care, Children’s Services and homelessness to make sure vulnerable residents are supported.
And the council is to allocate more than £7.5 million for parks, green spaces and ‘street scene’ services such as rubbish removal, street cleansing and maintenance of grass verges. There will be over 100 new jobs and apprenticeships ring-fenced for local young people including 26 new barrow walkers and street washers to tackle grotspots. Play parks in the city will be prioritised to have equipment replaced and parks will be brought up to ‘Green Flag’ standard.
This is in addition to £2.5 million committed last year which includes creating School Streets to keep children and parents safe, make life easier for residents and local businesses, improve air quality and encourage active travel.
A Community Renewal Fund will also be established – almost £4 million over the next two years for ward councillors to work with local groups to tackle deprivation and other issues in their ward.
An additional half a million pounds is also being set aside in the coming year for youth services on top of a further £500k, which means £1 million to get more youth workers into communities.
The council is to spend a total of £231 million on ‘capital’ infrastructure projects in 2026/27, including investment in roads, safer and greener streets, school buildings, social care and health facilities, improving leisure facilities and more energy efficient buildings.
The Government has announced a three-year settlement for councils. Following the ‘Fair Funding’ review, which takes account of deprivation, Liverpool will move up from sixth to fifth highest in England by 2029 in terms of the amount spent per head of population (Core Spending Power).
The council will receive an additional £186 million in funding between now and 2029 – a rise of just over 25 per cent – with £69 million of it in the 2026/27 financial year.
Read more about our budget on our Myth Buster pages on Liverpool Express.