{"id":10122,"date":"2025-09-03T11:51:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/?p=10122"},"modified":"2025-09-03T12:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:02:06","slug":"delivering-under-pressure-how-councils-can-adapt-to-shrinking-budgets-deteriorating-assets-and-net-zero-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/?p=10122","title":{"rendered":"Delivering Under Pressure: How councils can adapt to shrinking budgets, deteriorating assets and net zero expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Managing the complexities of council assets and the diverse impact they have on local communities is no mean feat, particularly when funding from central government is only heading in one direction: downwards!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With budget cuts, rising community expectations, environmental responsibilities and evolving legislation \u2013 all on top of managing physical assets \u2013 it is clear why councils need to invest in more sophisticated asset management processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within a council, there can be many different factors and suppliers at play, sometimes adding unnecessary levels of complexities to any one job. With multiple suppliers, data can become disjoined over time, which can ultimately lead to reactive maintenance, rather than a proactive outlook. Fixing problems is always more expensive in the long-run rather than preventing them from happening in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Councils have a multitude of assets to monitor and manage at any one time \u2013 drainage, parks and grounds, highways, bridges and structures, and more \u2013 and understanding the characteristics and patterns of these assets takes time. However, by using centralised data across asset classes can help councils to understand these behaviours, as well as the impact between them.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Brightly_Ruth-Hughes-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10123\" style=\"width:219px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Brightly_Ruth-Hughes-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Brightly_Ruth-Hughes-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Brightly_Ruth-Hughes-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Brightly_Ruth-Hughes-2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Brightly_Ruth-Hughes-2-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Brightly_Ruth-Hughes-2-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Brightly_Ruth-Hughes-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Ruth Hughes, Leicestershire County Counci<\/em>l<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Take highways and drainage, for example, in this scenario: A gully along a highway is blocked and there is a weather warning for heavy rain. Overnight, the rainfall causes localised flooding which means road closures and diversions are put in place. A subsequent cold snap causes the surface water to freeze, causing icy road conditions and a deterioration of the road\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With all assets managed in one system, this risk could have been avoided. Councils would be aware that the gully was prone to blockage and that the road condition in that particular area was already fallible. With this information, a proactive plan could have been put in place to ensure regular clearing of the impacted gullies and a priority level set for resurfacing works on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>One system. One supplier<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shift to greater digitisation in asset management is helping councils to meet these challenges by enabling them to interrogate operations, support financial decisions and deliver cost efficiencies that stretch budgets further, while also benefitting communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brightly\u2019s digital asset management tool, Confirm, is an intuitive, user-friendly and robust system that supports smart management to facilitate local authorities\u2019 service<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>improvements. It centralises assets to simplify and streamline the processes involved with managing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Confirm, everyone works from the same centralised data across each council department, meaning: one point of data input, one system for the team to learn from, and one place to pull real-time information from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A customer\u2019s perspective<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By using Confirm, Brightly\u2019s customers are benefitting from being able to inform and defend decisions, make budgets work harder for their communities and deliver better services more quickly to councillors and members of the community.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Brightly_Richard-Evans-3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10124\" style=\"width:255px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Brightly_Richard-Evans-3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Brightly_Richard-Evans-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Brightly_Richard-Evans-3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Brightly_Richard-Evans-3-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Brightly_Richard-Evans-3-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Brightly_Richard-Evans-3-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Brightly_Richard-Evans-3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Richard Evans, West Sussex County Council<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe started using Confirm in January 2004. The reason we bought this software was because we were unable to defend an insurance claim, because we couldn&#8217;t prove the negative. If you haven&#8217;t got the information, it\u2019s very hard to evidence. So, finding bits of paper &#8211; When did you inspect? Did you inspect? What did you find? Having it all there you can prove the negatives as well.\u201d \u2013 Ruth Hughes, Leicestershire County Council<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHidden data, or data which is not looked after or is locked away somewhere, is an immature sign in an organisation. So, having a system where it&#8217;s easy and possible to put that data in, helps us to quicken up the pace to design schemes, respond to councillors and members of the public, and deliver better services.\u201d \u2013 Chris Faires, Hertfordshire County Council<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe mobile, offline working with Confirm Connect is fantastic, in my opinion. It&#8217;s key to a lot of our field staff and the efficiencies that we get. There&#8217;s no double handling of information, for example.\u201d \u2013 Richard Evans, West Sussex County Council<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere isn\u2019t an infinite amount of money or resources, so we need to make sure we\u2019re making the right decisions at the right time to get the most out of taxpayers\u2019 money. By using asset data to make decisions, we\u2019re providing the best value to the community.\u201d \u2013 Shaun Taylor, Bristol City Council<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re a very large council with hundreds and thousands of assets that needed to sit in a proper system. With Confirm, we now have much more granularity and a deeper understanding of our assets. We can see an asset issue right from the time it gets reported to the minute it gets completed. This system enables us to properly account for what\u2019s happened to our various assets right across the network.\u201d \u2013 Carol Valentine, Kent County Council<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you\u2019d like to find out more about how Brightly\u2019s Confirm software can unite assets, click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightlysoftware.com\/en-gb\/industries\/government?utm_source=GPSJ&#038;utm_medium=Digital\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.brightlysoftware.com\/en-gb\/industries\/government?utm_source=GPSJ&#038;utm_medium=Digital<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Managing the complexities of council assets and the diverse impact they have on local communities is no mean feat, particularly when funding from central government is only heading in one direction: downwards!<\/p>\n<p>With budget cuts, rising community expectations, environmental responsibilities and evolving legislation \u2013 all on top of managing physical assets \u2013 it is <\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/?p=10122\">Delivering Under Pressure: How councils can adapt to shrinking budgets, deteriorating assets and net zero expectations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4075,4463,1563,1367,1577,3871,25,417,26,264,4608,310,416,422,4609,4607],"class_list":["post-10122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-authority-councils","tag-brightly","tag-brightly-software","tag-bristol-city-council","tag-councils","tag-environment","tag-flooding","tag-government-public-sector-journal","tag-government-journal","tag-gpsj","tag-gpsj-magazine","tag-leicestershire-county-council","tag-public-sector","tag-public-sector-journal","tag-public-sector-magazine","tag-resurfacing","tag-west-sussex-county-council","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Delivering Under Pressure: How councils can adapt to shrinking budgets, deteriorating assets and net zero expectations - Government &amp; Public Sector Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/?p=10122\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Delivering Under Pressure: How councils can adapt to shrinking budgets, deteriorating assets and net zero expectations - Government &amp; Public Sector Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Managing the complexities of council assets and the diverse impact they have on local communities is no mean feat, particularly when funding from central government is only heading in one direction: downwards! 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