Councils are under pressure to deliver better services with fewer resources. CFO Insights provides clear financial insight to support confident, evidence-based decisions that improve outcomes. 

Local government is navigating rising demand, tightening budgets and growing scrutiny. You need to act quickly - but with confidence.

CFO Insights gives you a three-dimensional view of your income and spend - linking financial data to service outcomes and the socio-economic realities of your communities - and lets you benchmark against your true statistical neighbours across England. Move beyond data, into action.

With CFO Insights, you can:

Identify top performers instantly

See who delivers the best outcomes - and learn from them

Benchmark with precision

Compare against socio-economically similar councils, not just neighbours

Visualise data with clarity

Maps, charts, spider diagrams and league tables

Segment intelligently

Filter by authority type, region, core or key cities

Aggregate and analyse quickly

Combine datasets to generate insight in seconds

Save time and effort

Less time spent finding data, more time deciding

A quick look at CFO Insights

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Analysis produced from CFO insights is valued across the council. The main benefit of CFO insights for me is the ability to focus upon outcomes as well as costs.
Guy Lonsdale Deputy S151 Officer, North East Lincolnshire Council
CFO insights is an important element of our medium-term financial planning.
Matt Bowmer Head of Finance, Vale of Glamorgan
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Case study

Empowering Vale of Glamorgan through rapid data insight

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The challenge:
Vale of Glamorgan faces budget pressure, prompting the need for evidence-based savings and transformation strategies. They seek to understand best practices from other Welsh authorities for change initiatives.
The solution:
We provided benchmarking analysis for two council budget cycles, aligning insights to socio-economic context and key challenges.
The result:
The council has used the benchmarking analysis to shape its transformation programme, and to identify opportunities for both change and savings generation over the short and long term.
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Case study

Outcomes based framework for budget setting

The challenge:
North East Lincolnshire Council needed to overcome hurdles to align with their new budget approach, prompting the need for evidence-based decision making to influence members to take informed key decisions.
The solution:
We provided CFO insights to the council which helped push considerations towards relative performance against multiple financial and outcome measures whilst still highlighting key characteristics.
The result:
The CFO insights used has offered the council the ability to focus upon outcomes as well as costs which have influenced internal communications positively.
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Case study

Helping Wirral Council with their service reviews

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The challenge:
Wirral Intelligence Services (WIS) looked to improve their understanding of the differentials in outcome measures of the council compared to other local authorities.
The solution:
Achieving multiple outcomes, through in-depth reviews of different internal and external services, our insights were used to understand constraints in decision and approval times, further understanding how to overcome barriers.
The result:
Valuable information was generated from the required evidence gathered from our CFO insights. Helping raise the profile of work being undertaken within planning.

    Get in contact with our experts

    Claire Hampson

    Director
    London  Office
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    Chris Ilsley

    Assistant Manager
    London  Office
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    Michael Pilcher

    Principal Consultant
    Bristol, London  Office
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