British Resilience Index: United Kingdom national resilience dashboard

Councils in England spend £12.0bn a year on long term care for over 65s and those people pay £3.6bn of it back in charges. Scotland has paid for personal care since 2002, now £260.30 a week in a care home. The workforce, the ageing population, and the triple lock record behind the National Care Service announcement.

About 40 per cent of fostered children in England are placed through independent agencies, up from 27 per cent in 2010. Councils paid private providers £874m in 2024-25, the CMA found profits at the largest agencies materially above a working market, and the ownership chains of the two largest owners lead to Jersey and Luxembourg. A viral claim about the National Fostering Agency, checked against the filings.

How the four hour standard has slipped to 75 per cent, the rise in 12 hour waits, and the worst trusts.

33.9 million appointments in July 2026, 4.3 per cent more than a year earlier, 44.7 per cent seen the same day and 82.0 per cent within two weeks, who delivers them, and the official split between urgent and routine care.

7,278,384 referral to treatment pathways were waiting at the end of May 2026, around 6.2 million individual patients, with 65.6 per cent within 18 weeks against a 92 per cent standard last met in September 2015, and 104,734 waits of more than a year.

How the price of a home has climbed over thirty years, how far it varies between places, and where West Lothian sits.

What share of children grow up in a low income family, by local authority and nation, how much housing costs add, and where West Lothian sits.

How many households cannot keep warm at a reasonable cost, by region and local authority, and how the measure has changed since 2010.

Britain publishes the gambling industry quarterly to the penny, and cannot agree how many adults are harmed by it: two sets of official statistics differ sixfold and an independent review says a third of the gap is unexplained. It has counted 21 gambling related suicides ever, none since 2016, records gambling nowhere in its insolvency statistics, and publishes no NHS waiting times or outcomes. When the NHS came to spend the new levy it declined to use the prevalence data at all.

A British Resilience Index analysis ranking English local authorities on fuel poverty, child low income and drug deaths together, to show where the deepest hardship overlaps.

How many years of pay a home costs in every local authority: 7.63 times typical earnings in England, down from the 2021 peak but more than double the 1997 ratio.

134,210 households, including 176,130 children, were living in temporary accommodation on 31 December 2025, down slightly from the record set the previous quarter, the first quarterly fall since 2022, but still up 5.0 per cent on a year earlier.

No VAT on household electricity from 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027, worth around £45 off the yearly cap. The £1,723 October bill taken apart into Ofgem's cost allowances, who gets the VAT cut and who does not, and the £14bn to £18.5bn levy path on OBR figures.

The storm overflow record: how often each water company spills, into which rivers, and whether it is getting better or worse.

Critical national infrastructure since 2024, five AI Growth Zones, tens of billions announced and a 50 GW connection queue, yet the first official electricity figures arrived only in June 2026 and no official count of the sites exists. In Scotland, where the energy case is strongest, a 7,200 comment planning file, a refused Edinburgh scheme and a ministerial takeback tell the backlash story.

The NATS flight data system failed on 8 September 2026, three years after the 2023 failure that hit over 700,000 passengers and cost £75m to £100m. What the official reviews found, how the 34 recommendations were signed off as complete, why NATS beats its delay target on a normal day, how UK airspace compares with Europe, and why Heathrow, 2,130 movements under its cap, cannot absorb a lost afternoon.

Single bus fares in England outside London capped at £2 for all of 2027, backed by £400m. The first £2 cap cut fares 9.1 per cent in a quarter and added about 5 per cent to journeys, while bus miles outside London are down 28 per cent since 2005.

Ofgem's reliability figures for all 14 electricity licence areas: 35.1 minutes lost per customer a year on average, a 6.6 times gap between London and the north of Scotland, 11 areas missing their targets, £50.9m in penalties, and the winter margin beside the Government's advice to prepare for days without power.

The Government is lifting the 1989 cap on its shareholdings in England's water companies. Who owns each company now, £76.3bn of net debt, £4.8bn of dividends in five years, Thames Water at 84.5 per cent gearing, a £639 average bill, and how publicly owned Scottish Water and NI Water compare.

The average Band D council tax bill in England is 2,392 pounds in 2026 to 2027, up 4.9 per cent: how it has climbed since 1993, where bills are highest and lowest, and who raised them most this year.

Everything the state has sold: 177 businesses, stakes and loan books from the 1953 steel sales to Bulb in 2022, 61 council airports and bus companies, 54 returns to public ownership, £64.1bn raised between 1979-80 and 1995-96, about 2.8 million council homes bought by tenants, public land, forests and playing fields. What the National Audit Office found, the dividends paid since, who owns the companies now, the services contracted out, and links to our deep dives on each sector.

Every announced cut of 100 or more UK jobs by a named employer since January 2025, 189 announcements covering 111,306 roles, each graded on a six point scale by what the employer itself said about AI. Employers tied 2,907 of those roles to AI or automation, only 800 of them to AI; a history section goes back to 1950; far more mention AI in passing, have it pinned on them by unions and the press, or deny it.

A personal analysis. Income tax and National Insurance raise more than half of what HMRC collects, and they are levied on wages. This page reads the official exposure estimates, works through what an 85 per cent workforce cut at a bank like Lloyds would mean for the Exchequer and for the people, and weighs three responses: taxing the machine, penalising offshoring and rewarding UK hiring, and a German style earnings related unemployment insurance.

Police recorded 91,987 malicious communications offences in 2025/26, down from 288,939 at the peak, a fall the statisticians attribute to a counting rule change. Three in a hundred closed investigations ended in a charge and the courts convicted 2,487 people under the four offences in 2025. Arrests by offence are published by no department: a campaign group’s 62,199 tally reconciles with the Ministry on convictions and can be checked against nothing on arrests. With sentencing, the official arrests ceiling and Scotland.

The Cabinet Office published its first Chronic Risks Analysis in July 2025: 26 risks, no scores, no time series. This page maps the 26 against the 71 indicators the index scores, reads 17 of the document's figures again against the latest official release, lists the high stress indicators it never names, and says which of the unmeasured risks already have an official series.