Council budget 2016-20

We asked for your views on our budget proposals for 2016-20 and to tell us your ideas about how we should spend money and deliver services in the future.

You said we should try to protect education, care for older people, culture and services for vulnerable children and adults. These continue to be our priorities.

As a direct result of your feedback, councillors made changes to the 2016/17 budget. This included:

• removing the draft proposal to reduce street crossing patrols
• keeping the night noise team
• removing the draft proposal to reduce the size of in-house home care service
• not proceeding with the redesign of day care services for adults with learning disabilities
• removing the proposal for a reduction in community centre staff
• amending the proposal to review support staff in special schools, ensuring maintenance of both staff numbers and service delivery
• removing the £0.5million proposal to review family and pupil support
• maintaining the Council’s current level of funding for extra community policing
• investing £15.069million in roads, pavements and cycleways to continue to make it easier for people to get around the city
• allocating 9% of both the net capital expenditure and the net revenue expenditure of the Transport Division of the Council to cycling
• limiting the Council housing rent increase to 2% in 2016/17.

If you would like further information the full feedback report is available.