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London Borough of Brent: The UK’s 1st Cashless Council

The definition of a Cashless Council or Local Authority is one where all cash transactions have been removed completely from the transactional payments workflow.

A number of Local Authorities across the UK have trialled cashless systems across different areas such for catering, parking and payments with limited adoption and success but the London Borough of Brent is the UK's first genuine Cashless Local Authority as a result of the initial design and launch of a number of social disbursement prepaid card programmes.

Once other council departments realised the savings and efficiencies being made, they launched incremental programmes including payroll, petty cash and guardianship accounts. The Council finally decided to replace all cash payments in and out with electronic solutions – delivering powerful cost savings and revenue returns for the Council.

Click here to find out more and download the full Brent CC success story.