Local authorities in high needs funding programmes

Delivering Better Value (DBV) and Safety Valve programmes give extra funding to local authorities facing the greatest financial challenges. 

The Safety Valve programme targets the authorities with the highest percentage deficits, while the DBV programme targets authorities with slightly smaller deficits. 

35 local authorities are enrolled on to the Safety Valve programme, while 55 local authorities are on the DBV programme. 

You can see if your local authority is enrolled in the tables below.

Safety Valve Local Authorities 

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BarnsleyKingston upon Thames
Bath and Northeast SomersetKirklees
BexleyMedway
BlackpoolMerton
BoltonNorfolk
Bracknell ForestNorth Somerset
BristolNorth Tyneside
BuryRichmond upon Thames
CambridgeshireRotherham
CroydonSalford
DarlingtonSlough
DevonSouth Gloucestershire
DorsetSouthwark
Hammersmith and FulhamStoke on Trent
HaringeySurrey
HillingdonTorbay
HounslowWiltshire
Isle of WightWokingham
KentYork

 

 

DBV Local Authorities 

Tranche 1
Bournemouth, Christchurch & PooleLeicestershire
BrentNortheast Lincolnshire
Cheshire EastOxfordshire
CumbriaSomerset
DoncasterSolihull
DudleySouthampton
HampshireSouth Tyneside
Kensington & ChelseaStockport
LeicestershireStockton-on-Tees
Cheshire EastSuffolk
Tranche 2 
Central BedfordshireReading
County DurhamRedcar and Cleveland
East Riding of YorkshireRochdale
EnfieldRutland
GloucestershireSefton
HackneySwindon
HaveringTameside
Kingston upon HullWest Sussex
MiddlesbroughWindsor & Maidenhead
NewhamWorcestershire
Oldham 
Tranche 3 
BirminghamNorth Yorkshire
BuckinghamshireSt Helens
CornwallSunderland
Borough of HaltonThurrock
LewishamWarwickshire
Tower HamletsWest Berkshire
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