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Population of St Helens: How Is The St Helens Council’s HOW community magazine YOU CAN HELP US PAGE 11 YOUR Spring COUNCIL TAX ST HELENS’ 2017 EXPLAINED BUDGET PAGE 8-9 CHALLENGE 2017-2020 PAGE 14-15 BREAKING POINT AN IN-DEPTH AND UPFRONT LOOK AT THE COUNCIL’S BUDGET POSITION sthelenscouncil | @sthelenscouncil | Spring 2017 | St Helens First 1 2 St Helens First | Spring 2017 | www.sthelens.gov.uk St Helens Council’s community magazine Welcome Spring an unprecedented level of budget vulnerable children, care for the 2017 cuts. Merseyside Police has lost elderly and maintain the roads will be £84 million with 1,600 officers and your Council Tax and business rates staff posts deleted. Merseyside Fire generated from businesses in Service has lost £26 million with a CONTACT US the borough. We are expected, as a third of fire appliances gone, and the Online: www.sthelens.gov.uk borough to be self-sufficient. It means health service, although not directly Email: cut, is experiencing pressure from an encouraging more rate paying [email protected] increasingly aging population. business and increasing Council Tax Telephone: 01744 676789 As a council, we’ve already lost more so that essential services can be Minicom: 01744 671671 St Helens than 1,600 staff and have dramatically maintained. Download the free, handy app reduced the number of services we It also means we must explain Council – search St Helens Council Council provide. However, the pressure we Tax better. As a council we must on your app store. Or visit our face not only comes from reduced legally provide certain services, such Contact Centre, Wesley House, Leader’s column funding, but also from increases in; as caring for the elderly, or keeping Corporation Street, St Helens, the amount of children and young children safe. Your Council Tax is a WA10 1HF. Cllr Andy Bowden people needing care or some form contribution to meeting the costs of Please contact us to request Acting Leader of protection, the number of children these services which the council has a translation of council information of St Helens Council with disabilities or severe learning statutory duty to provide. into Braille, audio transcription or difficulties and the ever increasing a foreign language. elcome to the Spring numbers of elderly people in need Over the next few months we will edition of St Helens of social care as our population be reviewing some of the services First. Follow us on Twitter: continues to age. we offer such as libraries, waste @sthelenscouncil W This edition has been The next three years (2017-2020) will collection and school crossing patrols – we may have to charge for services Like us on Facebook: dedicated to keeping you informed of be the toughest yet for the council, sthelenscouncil the council’s financial position. As a and possibly the borough, as we seek that were previously free or carry out council we are currently facing one of a further £20.6 million of savings. services less often. There can be no the most turbulent times in our history. This is particularly hard when we have doubt that services will be greatly CONTACT We’ve already lost £74 million of already made most of the efficiency affected, although we will do all we ST HELENS Government funding from our budget savings in previous years. There is no can to protect vital services to those since 2010 with an additional £20.6 longer any slack left in the system. with the greatest needs – vulnerable FIRST MAGAZINE million of savings to make over the Our approach is to be honest about children and adults. what this will mean. If you have less Email: next three years, as we respond to We’ve got some tough choices ahead money to spend, then you can provide [email protected] significant cuts in funding we receive fewer services. It’s as simple as that. but we will continue to consult with Online: from central Government. In total, our It also means being more open about local people and listen carefully to www.sthelens.gov.uk/news funding to spend on services in St how council finances actually work. what you tell us, so together we can Telephone: 01744 676164 Helens by 2020 will be £90 million From 2020 the amount of money find the best option for St Helens’ less than in 2010. provided to St Helens Council by future. You can go online at www. And it’s not just us – the whole of Government will almost all be gone. sthelens.gov.uk/budget to find out TALKING PAGES the public sector is experiencing The main funding available to protect more about our budget challenge. St Helens First is now available in talking book form for visually impaired people, contact us for information. Features 6-7 How your council ADVERTISING is funded St Helens Council does not warrant the accuracy of any 6 24 16-19 The cost of care description or statement, and does not endorse any product 22-23 Volunteers matter or service contained in any commercial advertisement featured in this publication. News environmentally-friendly paper. 24-25 St Cuthbert’s glowing Ofsted report 27 Archery club targets new members 22 28-29 The best upcoming events Follow us Like us on on Twitter: Facebook: @sthelenscouncil sthelenscouncil sthelenscouncil | @sthelenscouncil | Spring 2017 | St Helens First 3 +( " ! " # "((,+" "! " + ( - /# ("( ( #( ( / "( #+" ! " ( !" " "# "(# ! Budget Challenge ! "# # " ! ("( # What does your council ! ! spend its income on? !" Your council provides a wide range of maintain the parks and keep the streets clean, of statutory services including adult and services from cradle to grave and every but most importantly we also provide life children’s social care, where the cost of stage in between, many of which we take changing support for older people, people with that service depends largely on the number for granted every day. disabilities and children who are in need of of people in need. There are also services care, amongst many other services. St Helens has a growing population, which which we legally have to provide but it is not is currently 177,612 people in 82,000 Your council is not only obliged to deliver local specified how we deliver them such as waste households. Each year St Helens Council services but must also aim to balance the collection, road maintenance and library delivers hundreds of services to each and budget each year to pay for these services. every one of them, helping to look after the In order to pay for services council’s receive services. Some services are discretionary, local area and working to improve the lives of income from Council Tax, business rates, meaning they are services that a council can local people. from fees and charges and from central choose to provide but does not have to, like You probably know that your council does Government by way of a grant. leisure services, pest control and parking – things like collect your bins, fix potholes, We are legally required to provide a number and we can charge for these services. +( " ! " # "((,+" "! " + ( - /# ("( ( +( " #( ( / ! " # "((,+" "! "( #+" " + ( " ( - /# ("( ( ! ,2' ,2+' #( (2 2/ ,22 2# !" " "# "(# 2# "" "( #+" $ ! ! " ! "# # ! " ( "& ("( # !" " "# "(# ! ! ! "# # " #% # ("( # !" .% * 0* ,2 1 %& * - % 2# 1 % & / *% $ "& ! ! ! ! !" !" What are the budget pressures? Like many other councils across the country, we’ve been hit hard by Government cuts. Since 2010 we’ve had our central funding reduced by by 58% - that’s some £74 million of savings. This has led to big changes in the way our services have been delivered. Over the next three years we will have to face further funding cuts totalling £15.6m. With inflation and other cost factors added on this will mean we will need to find a further £20.6m of savings by 2020. That’s £90 million of funding cuts over the ten-year period which equates to £507 less per person to spend on your services, than we did in 2010. That’s a much bigger cut than authorities in the more wealthier parts of the country. 4 St Helens First | Spring 2017 | www.sthelens.gov.uk ,2' ,2+' 22 ,22 2# 2# "" $ "& #% # !" .% * 0* ,2 1 %& * - % 2# 1 % & / *% $ "& ,2' ,2+' 22 ,22 2# 2# "" $ "& #% # !" .% * 0* ,2 1 %& * - % 2# 1 % & / *% $ "& +( " ! " # "((,+" "! " + ( - /# ("( ( #( ( / "( #+" ! " ( !" " "# "(# ! ! "# # Budget Challenge " ! ("( # What are the demand ! ! pressures? !" In addition to the cuts to our budget it west averages, resulting in a greater impact We may need to charge for other services is also costing us more to provide local from welfare reforms and inequalities that only some people require such as garden services due to increasing demand and across wards. waste as other councils do. Or we may rising costs. The simple truth is we can no longer continue reduce services such as only cleaning the to pay for all the services we have traditionally gullies and gutters once a year instead of St Helens has an aging population causing pressure on health and social care services provided. We must prioritise resources every six months. such as home carers, respite provision and towards those services which we are legally We are continuing to review how we provide support to people with long term health required to offer and review how we provide services such as libraries, parks and leisure conditions such as dementia. In the next them. centres in order to deliver a further £20.6 20 years the number of 90 year olds in St We will be caring for vulnerable adults million worth of savings. Helens is expected to triple and the number in need. The decisions to be made are hard but there of older people with complex and/or multiple We will continue to protect children and are few alternatives, having already managed conditions is likely to dramatically increase.
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