Transcript Budget Consultation 2014-15

Planning
Birmingham’s
Future and
Budget
Consultation
Councillor Stewart Stacey
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Budget Consultation 2014-15
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The financial position facing the council
Service Reviews
Outcomes of the service reviews
Some key proposals
Summary of the proposed budget
Proposed new savings
District services
Standing up for Birmingham
Working together BCC and the VCS
Comments and questions – plus other ways to give us your
views
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The Financial Position
• Combined grant cuts
and spending pressures
of £840m 2010-2018
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• Grant cuts are over a
third of the budget we
can decide how to
spend
• £375m savings so far
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£839m
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2010/11
2011/12
2012/13
2013/14
2014/15
2015/16
2016/17
2017/18
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• £465m still to come
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Pressures
Grant reductions
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The Service Reviews
• To manage the cuts sensibly and with the least
possible damage we needed a longer term
plan
• A comprehensive service review process was
undertaken and green papers published
• Needed to think about what the council does
in a new way
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Outcomes of the Service Reviews
• White Paper – Planning Birminghams future
and budget consultation 2014- 15 published
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Summarises ideas from the green papers
Sets out a longer term plan for change
Budget proposals also in White Paper (Appendix 2)
Details in fact sheets
• At www.birmingham.gov.uk/budgetviews
Three big themes…
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Theme 1 - Working more efficiently
Reducing waste and getting more use out of
what we have – through
• Clearer priorities
• Better use of technology
• Using fewer buildings
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Theme 2 - Working with others
• Using different service providers and sources
of funding, including voluntary and
community organisations and social
enterprises as well as the private sector
• Forming new partnerships with other
organisations, pooling money and making
decisions together
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Theme 3 - Working differently
• Joining up services: e.g one building for all
services
• Reducing need: this includes limiting who is
entitled to use a service/charging money for
it/responding earlier to prevent costly problems
• Working with communities to help people to
look after their own needs more
Where at all possible, we need to protect the most
vulnerable service users and the areas of
Birmingham with greatest need
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But we still need to set a budget
Some Key Proposals
• Additional £9.2m for children’s social care
• Transformation of sport and physical activity
services – including £36m capital invested in
six new-build pools and other facilities
• Reduction in support services costs – £20m
from Service Birmingham (our biggest single
cut)
• No closing down of services in 2014-15
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Summary of the Proposed Budget
LTFP at February 2013
Budget gap 2014-15
£111.2m
£125.3m
Adjustments
-£36.9m
Specific cuts to services
£88.4m
(£1.2m existing plans, £87.2m new)
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Proposed New Savings
Service Review Theme
Saving
Adults Social Care
Safeguarding, Supporting and Educating
Young People
Developing a Successful and Inclusive Economy
Developing Successful and Inclusive Communities
Safe, Clean and Green Neighbourhoods
Support Services
A Well Managed and Resilient City
Total
£14.355m
£13.354m
£5.980m
£14.125m
£6.000m
£32.600m
£0.820m
£87.234m
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District Services
• District Committees are responsible for a
range of local services
• District budgets are being reallocated on a
deprivation index basis, to better reflect local
needs
• Each District is proposing savings within citywide guidelines and priorities
• Detailed proposals will be consulted on locally
in the New Year
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Standing up for Birmingham
#su4brum
Our campaign calls for people, organisations and
businesses to:
• Unite as a city in response to the cuts and support
our demand that the government make the reforms
needed to sustain our services
• Contribute to local services and neighbourhoods –
we welcome your contribution and your ideas for
doing things differently
• Work with council staff and others to help maintain
services at this difficult time
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Standing up for Birmingham
Next steps
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Districts will make contact with local groups and voluntary organisations
A new enquiry point for those wishing to register an asset of community value or seeking
support for any other initiative
Mobilising community networks such as neighbourhood forums through a range of virtual
and real community events
Gather good ideas and good practice from around the country and communicate it widely to
enable people to be inspired by things happening elsewhere
Develop materials, such as a prospectus of opportunities and a detailed toolkit, and engage
mentors.
Review regulations and red tape that cause difficulties for community and voluntary
organisations trying to make a difference in their community.
Develop new ways of building collaboration between public services and voluntary and
community groups across the city – building on the work already done in the Fair Brum social
inclusion process and by many other organisations.
Re-launch our staff volunteering scheme and encourage City Council staff to participate in
time banking.
Support efforts to build awareness of the time banking schemes already operating in the city14
and encourage new ones.
Working together – BCC and the
Voluntary and Community Sector
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We recognise the value of the VCS and are seeking to
develop even more of a partnership approach to make
best use of all resources in Birmingham.
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We know Supporting People is particularly important to
the sector and hope to run the procurement exercise in a
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Welcomes providers who want to form collaboratives to bid for SP
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Values "social value" as much as "price" in the tender evaluation
Recognises providers' innovative social value added, as well as the
base SP contractual specification social value.
Applies the Living Wage to all SP providers.
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This Afternoon
Thematic workshops to discuss the questions below
Which proposals will most affect a) the people you support and
b) your organisation? In what ways?
Do you have any suggestions about how the council and your
organisation (or others) can work together to run our public
services better in the future and to minimise any negative
impact of cuts the council has to make?
Do you have any other ideas about running services in a
different way?
Council staff will take notes to make sure your views
are included in the consultation
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Give your views or ask questions
Complete an online survey at www.birminghambeheard.co.uk
By email to: [email protected]
By SMS by texting “budget” followed by a space and your
message to 07786 200 403
By post to: Budget Views, Room 221, The Council House,
Birmingham B1 1BB
By 10 January 2014
Download the White Paper, summary and fact sheets from
www.birmingham.gov.uk/budgetviews
* clarification - this is the corporate consultation – there will be
service specific consultation taking place too which has a longer
timescale and will close after 10th January.
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