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Budget Insights
The key budget challenges we face and what we are doing to deliver our services to residents and communities in a more efficient way.
Allocating council budgets
Councils must fund and deliver certain nationally agreed policies; this is called directed spend.
Directed spend accounts for 75% of our total budget to cover our responsibilities in education, children's services, health and social care.
This leaves only 25% to deliver local services and priorities, some of which are statutory responsibilties. Roads, waste, libraries, arts and maintenance of parks and open spaces are all examples of services that must be funded from this remaining quarter.
Increasing revenue through external grants, recycling income or introducing charges for non-statutory services while working in more efficient ways means we can address our budget challenges and safeguard essential services for the people who need them.
Allocating council budgets