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Cllr Martin Hill, Leader, Lincolnshire County Council ” Countynews countycountynewsnews WINTER 2016 The deepest “cuts we’ve ever faced... Cllr Martin Hill, Leader, Lincolnshire County Council ” countynews contents winter 2016 4 What do YOU think? Double-page finance special, with survey 6 Drive for devolution Bid for more local powers 6 Leader’s welcome... News in brief New Year always brings new challenges – which is 7 just as I like it. However, the scale of the financial Four pages of stories from across Lincolnshire task now facing Lincolnshire County Council is daunting, even for an optimist like me. New year, new roll-out As you probably know, the Government is greatly 12 reducing the grants it gives local authorities – part of Great news on superfast broadband its wider drive to rebuild the national finances. Here, we have to cut our annual spending by at least Roads to success £130m over the next four years, on top of the massive 13 12 savings we’ve already made. This will mean very tough Transport projects vital to the future choices about local services, with some even having to be stopped altogether, as we explain in our coverage 15 Improving lives, saving money starting on page 3. Helping troubled families helps us all Please take the time to have a look and let us know your views. They really matter to us, and will help as we continue to work on balancing the books. 16 Special feature: Healthy young minds Elsewhere in this magazine, we update you on Mental health support for our children how Lincolnshire will play its part in accepting Syrian refugees, and what residents can do to help. 16 Knowing county people as I do – particularly your 21 West Lindsey News commitment to volunteering – I’ve no doubts about Eight fabulous pages of district news the generosity of your response. This edition also focuses on the successful roll-out of superfast broadband, with the first phase progressing 30 Out and about rapidly towards completion. Your essential guide to winter events For many thousands of Lincolnshire households and businesses, this is providing potential access to the Contact us faster connectivity so important to modern life. 32 Staying with connections, we take a detailed look Web, email, phone or post – you choose! at major road schemes already underway or being planned across the county. Then there’s advice on new rights for consumers, in 21 time for your New Year bargain hunts. This County News also looks at work to support good Contact information mental health among our children and young people. With older residents in mind, we have features on EDITORIAL MORE INFORMATION staying well this winter and on changes to home care. Lincolnshire County Council Printing: Polestar Bicester Limited Last but not least, we highlight efforts by this council Tel: 01522 782060 Distribution: County News is published by Lincolnshire and other organisations across Greater Lincolnshire to Email: [email protected] County Council. Each edition is delivered to about By post: County News, Lincolnshire County 342,000 homes and businesses by Royal Mail. achieve greater devolution. Council, County Oces, Newland, Lincoln, Next edition: The spring 2016 edition of the magazine It would involve the transfer of significant powers LN1 1YL will be distributed in late March 2016. from the Government to this area, giving us much Online: www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/countynews Audio versions: County News is available to download greater control of our own affairs. Editor: David Harding, communications ocer in audio format at www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/countynews Now that’s a New Year challenge worth pursuing! Managing editor: Karen Spencer, or as a tape or CD on request from Listening Lincs on 01522 782010. communications manager West Lindsey News: Communications team, Sustainability: County News is printed on paper from 01427 676512, communicationsteam@west- responsible or well-managed sources. Please recycle the lindsey.gov.uk magazine when you have nished with it. Design: Neil Lamont and Associates Cllr Martin Hill OBE Leader of Lincolnshire County Council FINANCE REPORT Deep cuts, tough choices The council is asking residents for their views on what services to reduce or stop altogether Cllr Martin Hill, Council Leader: Councils across England are facing the deepest cuts in the history like, simply to generate extra income. The Chancellor has said that councils of local government. responsible for adult social care – including this one – can increase council They’re also bigger than those in any other part of the public sector, tax by 2% on top of any other permitted rise. even though every department is having to play its part in rebuilding the That additional money – estimated to be about £4.5m a year – would nation’s finances. have to be spent on care, and would obviously be helpful. However, it Some major areas of spending, such as the NHS, defence, schools and wouldn’t meet the extra £30m costs that the Government’s national living foreign aid, have been largely protected from reductions. wage is likely to add to our adult care contracts by 2020. That means local government has had to take an even bigger proportion Neither would it resolve the demographic problem – the fact that demand of the budget cuts, which have been huge for all councils. for adult care is rising all the time as people live longer and move to So what does this mean for local services? Lincolnshire to retire. Imagine if every council in England stopped filling in potholes, turned off As county councillors, we’re elected to take difficult decisions to balance every street light, and closed all parks, children’s centres, libraries, museums the books – and we will do that. However, it’s important that we should take and leisure centres. Even that would still not save enough to plug the account of your views before we make those decisions, which is why we’d financial black hole we’re facing by 2020. like as many residents as possible to complete and return the survey form on Given the scale of the problem, councils have to decide what – if anything page 5. Thank you in anticipation of your response. at all – we can provide beyond what we absolutely have to. At this council, having already reduced our budget by £129m over the last four years, we’re faced with at least the same massive cut again. However, the savings will be very much harder to find this time, as we’re already running a far more efficient council. The challenge – and the impact on services – could hardly be greater. Cllr Marc Jones, Finance Portfolio Holder: Over the next 12 months, we have to reduce this council’s spending by £40m, with further massive cuts over the three following years. That £40m is more than we spend each year on two vital services – Fire and Rescue and the disposal of every single household’s rubbish. So where are we going to find these savings? The stark truth is that the budgets for almost everything we do will have to be cut to some extent. Some non- essential services will have to be stopped altogether. We may also have to increase council tax much more than we’d DIFFICULT DECISIONS: Cllr Martin Hill, left, and Cllr Marc Jones. countynews winter 2016 • www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/countynews 3 COUNCIL FINANCES What do YOU think? ouncil finances are eing hit hard, which means really difficult decisions aout services, and we want your inut What’s it all about? In all these areas, our legal responsibility means budgets will be cut by a In the last few editions of County News, we’ve outlined the scale of the smaller proportion, if at all. With adult care, increased demand may even financial challenge we’re facing over the next few years. push up spending in the future. Our funding from the Government – our main source of income – is So where can savings be made? being greatly reduced, while areas like adult social care are costing a lot more. Because vital services will be largely protected, non-essential areas have And because we’ve already reduced our budget by £129m to bear the brunt of the savings. since 2011, there’s little or no room left for “back office” and other These are “discretionary” services, including those in the survey form efficiency savings. on the opposite page. So how can we balance the books? Because their budgets are often quite small – and we have overall We’ve been very clear that some services will have to be cut, provided savings of £40m to find – the impact on them will be substantial. differently or stopped altogether. Now we’re asking where you think savings could be made in next What about reserves? year’s budget – please let us have your survey form by 15 January. We could use more money from our limited reserves next year to reduce the savings we have to make. How much money is involved? However, that would just be postponing the difficult decisions, because This year (2015/16) we’re spending £476m on services. Most of the we’d then have to save even more in future years – and reserves can only money is from government grants and council tax, but we’re also using be spent once. £22m of our reserves. From April 2016, we estimate we’ll only have around £436m for the How you can help year. This means we need to reduce our spending by about £40m. Please complete the survey form to show which discretionary services you think we could cut, and send it to the FREEPOST address. What vital services can’t be cut? Thank you for helping us ensure such difficult choices reflect the views Many services can’t be cut at all – or only very little.
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