Budget setting
Help shape Walsall’s budget for 2027/28
Like councils across the country, Walsall is facing increasing costs and growing demand for services. Each year we must:
- Maintain essential services for residents
- Support vulnerable children and adults
- Invest in local priorities
- Deliver value for money
- Set a balanced budget as required by law.
This means we must make difficult choices about how available funding is used. The decisions we make about next year’s budget will affect services used by residents, families, businesses and communities across the borough.
The budget sets out how money will be spent on vital services such as:
- Adult social care
- Children's services
- Waste collection and street cleaning
- Roads and highways
- Libraries and community services
- Housing and homelessness support
- Public health services
- And much more.
Before any final decisions are made, we want to hear your views on our proposed budget, including planned investments, saving proposals and council tax levels.
Whether you use council services every day, or only occasionally, your feedback will help inform the final budget.
Your feedback on our savings options will help shape what happens next.
On 28 October 2026, Cabinet discussed the budget plans for 2027/28 to 2030/31 (agenda item 10).
Cabinet will recommend the final 2027/28 budget, for approval by Council on 25 February 2027.
