Lib Dem councillors secure Budget wins

In February, City of Edinburgh Council set its budget for the year 2025/26. As part of the process, Lib Dem councillors secured several important wins for our area. 

They include:

• Blocking the proposed cuts to transition teachers and Pupil Support Assistants
• Another £12.5 million to keep repairing our roads, paths and pavements
• Protecting devolved school budgets (those pots of funding that can be spent by each school as they judge best)
• Funding to replace the Fox Covert campus after RAAC was discovered, and to expand Craigmount High School
• An additional injection of funding into road safety, especially near schools, bringing the total road safety budget to a record level
• Investment in repairs for special schools
• More permanent funding for street cleansing - rather than just a one-off injection of cash

Local Lib Dem councillor Ed Thornley said, "There's lots in the budget which will hopefully mean good things for our area. Investment in road safety near and on the way to schools is essential, and the state or our roads and pavements is the single biggest issue that local residents raise with me on the doorstep. 

“Exactly how this funding will be used - such as what the plans for Fox Covert will include, or exactly which roads will be resurfaced - will be decided in the coming months, and we'll do our best to keep updating residents.”