We haven’t even closed down the 2023-24 accounts yet and we are already starting to plan our 2025-26 medium-term financial strategy.
As part of our planning, the team is looking at all of the section 114 reports to see whether there is anything we may have previously missed. I am not holding out much hope as I suspect we have implemented all cost reduction, income generation and productivity gains that everyone else has thought about.
We know we have a budget gap from 2025-26 so where do we go next?
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