Budget Consultation 2005

In 2005  we used a new approach to budget consultation to help us identify the levels of service residents most want.

We commissioned Research for Today to carry out a consultation exercise for us using the SIMALTO modelling approach. This method asks residents, through a face to face survey, to select priorities from a choice of alternative levels for each service.  In effect to identify services where they most want to see improvements or reductions.  Their choices are ‘realistic’ as they are shown the relative savings/extra costs of each different service level and only have fixed budgets to allocate across the competing service levels.

The Executive Summary  (30.31 KB) of the reseach is available to view as well as the full Simalto Reseach Report.  (293.58 KB)

For more information contact:

Alan Smith
Strategy & Communications
Telephone: 01386 565333
Email: alan.smith@wychavon.gov.uk