Shape Newham's Future

Over the past few years, we’ve made real progress in Building a Fairer Newham: supporting people through the cost-of-living crisis, improving opportunities for our young people, and investing in our neighbourhoods. But as we prepare next year’s budget, we face some of the toughest financial challenges in a generation. 

Like every Council across the country, Newham is grappling with rising demand for essential services, particularly adult social care and temporary accommodation, at a time when our income simply isn’t keeping pace. Unless we act, we face a shortfall of £50 million next year and £90m by 2028/29, with £53m of that £90m linked directly to the soaring cost of temporary accommodation. This year we are only balancing our books because the Government gave us special permission to sell underused assets, but these can only be sold once.