Kate Ogden
Senior Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal StudiesKate Ogden is a Senior Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), the UK’s leading independent economics research institute. She works on English local government finance, and the distribution of spending on public services across places, and across people. She also works on higher education and student finance, and previously worked as an economist at the Cabinet Office.
My Speaker Sessions
Thursday 12 March 2026
Untangling the local government finance settlement
This year's local government finance settlement shifted the dial to match funding more closely with need and announced a 90% funding for SEND deficits. But what will it mean for local authorities and the wider public sector?
Kate Ogden will help you take a peak behind the curtain of the settlement to look at where the money is coming from, and what is will mean to council budgets.
