Where the money actually goes: the council's yearly spending split across its big service areas — schools support, roads, children's and adult care, housing, bins, libraries, planning and so on. It matters because the mix tells you what kind of pressures a council faces and what it prioritises. There is no simple high-is-bad here; the point is comparing the mix with similar councils and watching which slices grow.
| name | service-line-net-spend |
|---|---|
| dataset | 01-revenue-outturn |
| kind | extracted |
| type | numeric |
| unit | £000 per year |
| grain | council-year |
| role | feature |
| source | "data/Revenue_Outturn_time_series_data_v3.2.csv, columns `RS_edu_net_exp`, `RS_trans_net_exp`, `RS_csc_net_exp`, `RS_asc_net_exp`, `RS_phs_net_exp`, `RS_hous_net_exp`, `RS_cul_net_exp`, `RS_env_net_exp`, `RS_plan_net_exp`, `RS_cen_net_exp`, `RS_oth_net_exp`" |
| period | "FY 2017-18 to 2024-25, annual (year_ending 201803-202503)" |
| missingness | "Rows with status other than "submitted" (i.e. "total" aggregates and "not submitted") must be filtered out; a non-submitted council-year is a genuine gap, not zero. 2024-25 covers 410/411 councils. Councils abolished/created in 2017-25 reorganisations appear only for the years they existed." |
| score_note | The spend-mix backbone feeding several constructed measures; eleven columns are context-heavy rather than an efficiency verdict. |
| peer_group | council class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
A family of eleven RS columns giving net spend per major service block: education, transport, children's and adult social care, public health, housing, culture, environment, planning, central services and other. Together they describe the spend mix — where the budget actually goes — and feed the social-care-squeeze and trend variables. Never compare levels across LA_class, because which services a council runs depends on its class.