This counts how many times a council has declared effective bankruptcy — formally admitting it cannot balance its budget. Why care: doing this once is a crisis; doing it more than once means the rescue did not work. If a council has a count above one, it has repeatedly collapsed financially despite intervention.
| name | s114_count |
|---|---|
| dataset | 04-efs-s114 |
| kind | extracted |
| type | integer |
| unit | count |
| grain | council |
| role | feature |
| source | data/s114-notices-compiled.csv: rows per `council` |
| period | 2018-02-02 to 2023-11-29 (coverage after Nov 2023 unconfirmed) |
| missingness | unknown — hand-compiled, unofficial list; absence of an s114 record is not evidence of absence, and counts may undercount post-Nov-2023 notices. |
| score_note | Repeat-failure count from the weak hand-compiled list; mostly duplicates s114_issued. |
| peer_group | council class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
The number of s114 notices a council has issued (Croydon 3, Northamptonshire 2, others 1). Multiple notices indicate repeated failure to stabilise finances rather than a single crisis event. Caveat: derived from the hand-compiled unofficial list, so counts are a floor, not a ceiling.