The Council’s budget proposals for 2011/12

What does it all mean?

Sally Polanski,

Chief Executive, CVSF

• In its budget proposals the Council has identified £12.3million savings so far

• The reduction in grants from central government means that the council needs to make an additional £17.3million of savings

• A total of £30million savings for 2011/12

What do we know?

1. To deliver efficiency savings to help protect front line services

• Through reviewing the council’s own ways of working, working more closely with other public agencies, and by reviewing contracts with providers

2. Where changes need to be made to front line services proposals will take into account:

• Innovation to service design and delivery, the impact on costs and services provided by other public agencies, protecting, as far as possible, the contribution made by the CVS

Key budget principles

• Housing (incl. Supporting People)

• Adult Social Care (incl. learning disability)

• Children & Young People

• Environment & Community Safety

• Central Services, Culture & Enterprise

Budget themes

• Supporting People Welfare Grant – expected reduction £337,000

• Housing management - £913,000 savings

Housing budget

• Needs to make savings of £2,953,000 in 2011/12

• Personalisation will generate £1,551,000

• Better commissioning of independent sector providers will generate £1,016,000

Adult social care budget

• Total budget is £242.2 million

• Education welfare service - £170,000• Educational psychology service - £200,000 • Fostering and adoption - £362,000• Youth offending service - £91,000 • Youth services - £130,000 • Nursery provision £87,000• Home to school transport £200,000• Learning Development Centre - £64,000• Music services subsidies - £271,000

Children and Young People

• Disability service - £126,000• School improvement services - £70,000 • Ethnic minority achievement services - £165,000• School attendance services - £25,000• School workforce development and governor

support - £44,000• Special education needs - £46,000• Other savings eg Staffing, legal and consultancy

- £105,000

• Value for Money programme has identified £2,010,000 savings for 2011/12

Children and Young People

• £800,000 grants for community safety projects ended

• Refuse and recycling - £128,000

• City parks - £25,000• Parking services - £195,000• Car club permits - £64,000• Staff costs - £115,000• Transport/roads - £173,000• Planning - £303,000• Public Protection - £110,000• Sports & Leisure - £150,000

Environment and Community safety budget

• Assumed reduction in renaissance grant - £111,111

• Loss of DWP grant for Castleham supported employment - £265,000

• Will increase fees to increase income

Culture & Enterprise budget

• Value for Money Programme will generate £1,107,000 savings

• End 11x staff bus – save £96,000

• Loss of £450,000 LPSA funding for a number of bits of work commissioned and undertaken by Equality and Communities team

• Communications dept. identified £163,000 savings

Central services budget

• Supporting People Programme

• Savings in the Adult social care budget

• Children and Young people budget

• Community Safety

Key areas of concern

• CVSF representation on the Overview and Scrutiny Commission

• Not the only channel of influence

• The purpose of today is to discuss the impact of the reductions on the sector and the city’s communities

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