The national government wants to simplify how councils work. This means the current county, district, and borough councils will be replaced. Instead, all services will be run by new 'unitary councils'.

Right now in Suffolk, local government services are split up:

• Suffolk County Council is responsible for delivering services such as special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), roads, public transport, social care, libraries, and recycling centres across the county.
• Five district and borough councils (Babergh, East Suffolk, Ipswich, Mid Suffolk, and West Suffolk), are responsible in their areas for delivering services like bin collections, street cleaning, parking, leisure services, local planning, council housing, and helping homeless people.

A unitary council is a single council that provides all these services for a specific area.

Suffolk’s councils are now looking at how to reorganise to better meet the needs of residents, businesses, and communities, as part of the government’s Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) initiative.

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