Leisure and health services in Wigan received huge praise from councillors despite being £1.8 million over budget.
The Be Well programme was brought back under Wigan Council’s control in 2021 - when it was spending £6million on an allocated budget of just £0.9 million. But since then, officers have managed to ‘find efficiencies’ of approximately £3.3m since 2021/22 with no reduction in service, a council report stated.
Councillors at the Confident Council Scrutiny Committee meeting on March 27 described what they were seeing by the service as “fantastic” and “astounding” - highlighting it is not easy bringing a service ‘back in house’.
