Urging for a fairer urban future

Posted on November 17, 2025

Speaking to The MJ today, our new Parliamentary Group Chair, Sally Jameson MP, highlights the unique opportunity offered by the Fair Funding Review to redress historic funding imbalances:

'SIGOMA's new Parliamentary chair, Labour MP for Doncaster Central Sally Jameson, is urging the Government to reflect on the impact of the last-minute changes. She says the addition of housing costs as an indicator of deprivation is "set to strip millions from deprived urban areas in 2026/27. That's a considerable setback for councils already grappling with tighter budgets and rising demand"...

SIGOMA has strongly welcomed the introduction of the new un-ringfenced Recovery Grant to areas with greater need and demand for services, and Jameson praises the Pride in Place Impact Fund announced by the Government last month. She tells The MJ: "I know in Doncaster the Pride in Place Impact Fund is going to be £61.5m of capital spend, which is going to make a real difference in communities."

But she agrees that much work lies ahead to ensure residents "feel like local government is in a sustainable place again and is able to deliver all the services that it wants to and that people rightly want and deserve."...

“I think when you've had 15 years of a lot of councils, particularly SIGOMA councils, barely being able to pay for statutory services, never mind anything else, people are rightly at the point where they feel like things aren't working for them”'.

You can read the full article in The MJ here.