Share your views on the proposals for Health and Wellbeing
The ‘Unprecedented Times’ budget consultation has now closed. Thank you to everyone who took part. Your feedback has made a difference by helping to shape the Council budget. A copy of the feedback report is available here. The Council budget and services were discussed by Council on 20 February 2020. Information about the meeting is available here. |
The Council’s health and wellbeing services cover areas such as adult and children’s social care, support for vulnerable families, education and public health services.
We want to support children and young people to have the best start in life and enable more adults to live longer, healthier and happier lives, particularly as we move forward from COVID-19.
We have developed a number of proposals to balance the budget and ensure there is enough money to tackle these priorities.
We want to hear:
- Your views on the budget proposals
- Ideas for further savings that could be made.
To find out more please watch our animation or read about the detailed health and wellbeing proposals here.
Share your views:
There are lots of ways you can get involved, just click on one of the tabs below.
An easy read survey will be available shortly.
This consultation will be open until 3 December 2020.
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We may be in a position where further savings need to be made if funding from Central Government is less than anticipated. This will require more difficult decisions but potential areas we could look at include:
- reducing service standards, for example in highways and street cleaning
- changing our Council tax reduction scheme which provides relief for people on low incomes with Council tax bills
- increasing fees and charges above inflation
- further reductions in buildings owned by the Council, to reduce costs but also to secure investment from the sale of property
- further use of technology to deliver services.
Do you have any other ideas that could be explored if further savings are required?
Please do not share any personal information about yourself or anybody else here. For example only use first names, not full names.
Further information
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Unprecedented Times Feedback Report (pdf format) (645 KB) (pdf)
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Unprecedented Times full document (PDF version) (1.01 MB) (pdf)
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Unprecedented Times easy read survey (PDF format) (7.77 MB) (pdf)
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Health and Wellbeing detailed proposals (accessible format)
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Glossary of terms used in the budget proposals (accessible format)
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Unprecedented times - foreword and financial context (accessible format)
