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Your Council Your Council • We provide over 800 • We do this for • Living in over different services which help 147,800 people 65,000 households to improve people’s lives www.newport.gov.uk/ budget #NCCbudget
Your Council • And our population • The largest growth is for children • The Council provides employment for over 6,000 people just keeps growing under five, and people aged over 65 www.newport.gov.uk/ budget #NCCbudget
Where does our money come from? • Support grants from Welsh Government are our main • Council Tax only meets sources of funding - but they have been 20% of our costs (in most councils this is nearer to 25%) drastically cut in recent years www.newport.gov.uk/ budget #NCCbudget
Where does our money come from? 20 % • Your Council Tax pays for 1/5th of the services • Council Tax levels in Newport remain the second lowest in Wales you actually receive www.newport.gov.uk/ budget #NCCbudget
Why do we have a financial challenge? Financial pressures and demands on our services are increasing due to: • Ageing population, increases in demand led services, care for the elderly and children, schools funding, National Minimum Wage, inflationary costs www.newport.gov.uk/ budget #NCCbudget
Why do we have a financial challenge? • £41m of savings already made in the last 5 years • We still need to find savings of £33m by 2022 • By law we must set a balanced budget each year – we can’t spend more than we have www.newport.gov.uk/ budget #NCCbudget
So what have we been doing to meet this challenge? • Set up a property services • Set up a charitable trust • Reduced council staffing • We have sold land, joint venture for leisure services by one quarter in the last buildings and property we no longer use or need 5 years (staff directly employed by the Council) www.newport.gov.uk/ budget #NCCbudget
So what have we been doing to meet this challenge? • Reviewed our services • Developed shared • Reduced our • Helping people to become more efficient services such as IT staffing costs to live independently www.newport.gov.uk/ budget #NCCbudget
Local people could make a big difference • Preventing fly-tipping • Volunteers could help • Supporting a further • More use of on-line would save more than to run services 70 older people to live services would independently at home save £150k £170k a year in clean e.g. a community library would save £1.5m each year up costs www.newport.gov.uk/ budget #NCCbudget
The 2018/19 budget consultation So far we have – • Asked you about the things • Asked how you think we could do • Used accurate data on the things better and save money? population of Newport that are most important to your to plan services wellbeing now and in the future • Considered the 5,000 e.g. services, facilities, places, plus consultation responses from • Worked on further savings community networks etc. the last few years proposals for 2018/19 www.newport.gov.uk/ budget #NCCbudget
The 2018/19 budget consultation Cabinet will consider a number of proposals in December • Public consultation on all the budget proposals will take place between 20 December and 31 January • The draft budget will be considered by Cabinet in February 2018 • The council’s aim is to move to a more continuous review of services throughout the year to support ongoing savings and improvements www.newport.gov.uk/ budget #NCCbudget
How you can keep informed about the council’s budget Council budget web pages: www.newport.gov.uk/budget Twitter: @NewportCouncil or #NCCbudget Facebook: facebook.com/NewportCityCouncil Newport Matters - the council newspaper Send us any feedback or suggestions via: changing.services@newport.gov.uk or #NCCbudget www.newport.gov.uk/ budget #NCCbudget
Thank you for your time www.newport.gov.uk/ budget #NCCbudget
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