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RESIDENTS are being invited to take part in a consultation that will help reshape local government and how services are run in the future. Government wants to reorganise local government so that everyone in East Sussex gets their services from just one council. This could mean the county council...

https://news.eastsussex.gov.uk/news-releases/posts/consultation-on-future-of-local-government-launches

EAST Sussex County Council has overcome huge challenges to deliver vital services to thousands of residents, an annual report shows. State of the County reveals how the authority supported more than 30,000 people through adult social care services in 2024/25 and had contact with more than 48,000...

https://news.eastsussex.gov.uk/news-releases/posts/annual-report-highlights-successes-and-challenges

LEADERS have welcomed approval of their plans to collaborate in a single strategic authority for Sussex with a directly elected mayor. The government has agreed to move forward with a Mayoral Combined County Authority (MCCA) and confirmed the first mayoral election will take place in May 202...

https://news.eastsussex.gov.uk/news-releases/posts/devolution-and-mayoral-election-plans-move-forward

Councillor Zoe Nicholson, Leader of Lewes District Council, said: “I want to be clear about the considerable disappointment we feel regarding the eleventh-hour proposals put forward by Brighton and Hove City Council for local government reorganisation. As a result of their last-minute bid, t...

https://news.eastsussex.gov.uk/news-releases/posts/joint-reaction-from-lewes-district-council-and-east-sussex-county-council-to-newly-published-lgr-plan

AN ambitious plan for people in East Sussex to get all their services in one place, and at reduced cost, is being sent to Ministers today. The One East Sussex proposal is for a single council to provide all the services currently run by the five boroughs and district councils and by the coun...

https://news.eastsussex.gov.uk/news-releases/posts/case-for-one-east-sussex-is-presented-to-government

SUSSEX leaders from across the region came together today for the first meeting of a new Partnership Board, marking a key milestone in the journey toward establishing a Mayoral Combined County Authority for Sussex & Brighton. The meeting focused on preparations for devolution for Sussex &...

https://news.eastsussex.gov.uk/news-releases/posts/sussex-leaders-unite-to-launch-informal-partnership-board-ahead-of-mayoral-combined-county-authority

Planning for the Sussex and Brighton Combined County Authority continues apace. The Informal Partnership Board, which is overseeing the preparations for the new body and the election of the area’s first mayor in May 2026, met for the second time recently to discuss progress. The key focus of the...

https://news.eastsussex.gov.uk/news-releases/posts/a-headstart-on-devolution-sussex-leaders-drive-forward-prosperity-and-investment-plans

COUNCIL leaders will meet next week to consider how the authority can invest more than £693 million on vital public services for people in East Sussex in the year ahead. But reports to be considered by Cabinet lay bare the stark financial situation the council faces with it unable to rely on its...

https://news.eastsussex.gov.uk/news-releases/posts/leaders-to-discuss-693m-budget-as-financial-pressure-mounts

Final agreement has been given to a £693million budget which will help deliver vital services to people across East Sussex. The approved budget relies upon Government’s agreement to allow the council to borrow an additional £70million, known as Exceptional Financial Support, necessary to balance...

https://news.eastsussex.gov.uk/news-releases/posts/full-council-agrees-202627-budget

AVID readers across East Sussex are being urged to return overdue titles to the county council’s library service as part of the annual book amnesty which launches on Saturday (February 14). Residents are once again encouraged to return forgotten or mislaid books to their local library from Sat...

https://news.eastsussex.gov.uk/news-releases/posts/residents-urged-to-return-overdue-titles-in-annual-book-amnesty

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