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What Do We Do with Your Money? Our Guide to Your Shropshire Council Tax Bill 2020 to 2021 Shropshire Council Council Tax Make life easier, pay by Direct Debit visit www.shropshire.gov.uk/council-tax/your-account-online/ What Ou do r guid we e to y d our S o w hrops ith hire C yo ounc ur il Tax mo bill 20 ne 20 to y? 2021 Shropshire Council Your Guide To Your Foreword from Peter Nutting, Leader of Shropshire Council Our vision over the coming years is to innovate to thrive. We aim to put together plans for Council Tax Bill Shropshire that are bold, far-reaching and ambitious yet realistic to ensure Shropshire 2020 to 2021 continues to be a great place to visit, to work and to do business. Since taking over as Leader of the Council three years ago, my priority has been to focus on economic regeneration, raising income, becoming more commercial and efficient and ensuring Shropshire gets its fair share of funding to create a sustainable future for Shropshire. The above requires a long-term strategy involving some difficult decisions and dealing with changes that are beyond our control. It is not something that can be achieved overnight. 2 2020/21 is the first year of the five-year plan set out in our new Financial Strategy. The years ahead are expected to continue to provide many challenges for the Council. We know that our population is ageing with needs growing ever more complex as time goes on. But we understand our duty to provide the best care that we can afford for the people of Shropshire. We estimate that the cost of Adult Social Care will rise by £13m in 2020/21 alone. There has been a change in the demands in Children’s Services over the last three years. Safeguarding our younger population has proved difficult to manage financially since 2017/18 leading to significant financial pressures. In 2020/21, we have estimated that costs in Children’s Social Care will grow by £3.9m. We continue to see government funding fall every year. Revenue Support Grant, for example, was £67m in 2014/15 representing almost 30% of our £232m net funding. As of 2020/21, this has dropped to only 3% of the £226m we now to spend. This means that we have to raise more money locally through Council Tax, yet have less money in real terms to spend than ever before with demand for our services growing each year. Your Guide To Your Council Tax Bill 2020 to 2021 We manage these significant financial pressures in the knowledge the second consecutive year. Our newly approved Capital Strategy that we provide some of the lowest cost services in the country sets out the Council’s commercial investment plans and is key to while maintaining high standards of delivery. us increasing our income from other channels for further In 2019, we declared a climate emergency and adopted the investment in crucial services for Shropshire. Shropshire Council Climate Change Strategy Framework through Whilst we are awaiting the outcome of the fair funding review we which we have committed to becoming carbon net zero by 2030. are only able to produce a short term budget plan for 2020/21. Our A key element to our success in this is having the funds to financial plan does not provide a balanced and sustainable budget implement solutions. We have included a new budget for 2020/21 for the long-term future, it does meet our immediate challenges, funded from 100% business rates retention for renewable energy and our key focus to deliver a balanced budget in 2020/21. schemes. £960,000 has been committed to invest in renewable Through innovation, we will focus on the highest priority areas and energy schemes within the Council. There will be an ongoing those most likely to provide greatest reward. We will aim to budget that will be included in future years. improve efficiency and think more commercially in our approaches 3 Our funding gap in 2020/21 is estimated to be £30m and we plan and we will continue to lobby Central Government hard for a fair to deliver savings of £18.7m to close this, with the balance coming deal for Shropshire. However, we also know that we will have to from one-off grants and social care funding and reserves reduce or remove some services to balance our books. earmarked for this purpose. This leaflet explains how our services are funded, how much We are very proud that our Adult Social Care teams have won you contribute towards this through your council tax, and how several national awards for their vital work. This includes we calculate what you pay. I hope you will find this information recognition as being one of the top local authorities in the UK in useful and keep this guide to hand throughout the year. reducing the delayed transfers of care in hospitals. The teams have Peter Nutting also worked innovatively with partners to use technology to enable Leader of Shropshire Council independence and allowing people to remain at home and within their own communities. Economic regeneration and our focus on shaping our communities If you’d like more information are continuing to develop and perform well financially and visit our website: Shrewsbury Shopping Centres have yielded positive returns for www.shropshire.gov.uk OUR SourceS OF INCOME Social Care our Overall COSTS Operations £135m Learning & Skills Children's £59m Social Care & Provider Safeguarding Council Tax Services £8m £35m Dedicated & Collection Schools Fund Adult Business Grant £104m £167m Support & Development £5m Children’s Early Help, Services Partnerships and Housing Commissioning Services £5m Adult £166m Shropshire Services £4m Sales, £170m Fees Council and Charges Total income £90m £575m Public Health £17m 4 Shropshire Other Grants & Council Schools £68m Contributions Government Legal & Democratic £27m Grants Workforce & Services £4m Total spend Top Up £129m Transformation Business £575m Grant Revenue £13m Commercial £10m Rates Services £28m £42m Support Grant £6m The above chart shows where the council Corporate gets its money from and includes money Place Corporate Support from Government grants. Budgets £125m £114m £36m The chart on the right shows the key areas where the council spends its money. Strategic Management Board £1m Infrastructure & Communities £77m Finance, Governance Economic & Assurance Growth £71m £9m Your Guide To Your Council Tax Bill 2020 to 2021 WHAT YOUR COUNCIL Adult Services TAX PAYS FOR £716.74 How the Council is funded Children's Safeguarding £206.23 Theatre £0.36 Registrars & Coroners Waste £4.62 £198.46 Other Place Shropshire Services £4.87 Council Outdoor 5 Partnership Band D £6.91 Council Tax Economic Learning Growth £1,443.62 & Skills £7.10 (Including £21.82 one-off £117.13 contribution from Other Public Health Services Corporate Budgets) £5.81 Museums & Archives £8.33 Highways & Transport This chart broadly illustrates Planning £93.59 the Shropshire Council services Services £11.61 that the average Band D Council Leisure Libraries £13.68 £21.89 Tax supports and excludes any Early Help, Regulatory grant-funded services such as schools. Partnerships Housing Services and Services £17.37 Commissioning £15.64 £15.10 Shropshire Council How the Council is funded Council budget 2020 - 2021 In 2020/21 Shropshire Council's total gross spending on services will be £575m (more details are provided below). This spending is funded The budget requirement for 2020/21 by central government grants, business rates, council tax and fees and charges to users for some services. 2019/20 2020/21 £’000s £’000s In 2020/21 Shropshire Council expects to receive income from 568,489 Gross Expenditure 575,462 specific grants targeted at certain service areas, including the (excluding internal market charges) Dedicated Schools Grant, worth £233m. We also expect to receive -245,171 Government Grants -232,874 income from fees and charges of £90m. -22,522 Other Grants and Contributions -27,000 6 Consequently, in 2020/21 Shropshire Council's net budget requirement -86,957 Fees & Charges -90,066 (including the collection fund surplus) will be £226m. Of this, £6m or 3 (including internal recharges) per cent will come from central government in Revenue Support Grant, 213,839 Net Budget Requirement 225,522 around £53m or 23 per cent will come from business rates and your Financed by: council tax will contribute around £167m or 74 per cent of the money we have available to spend on services (55 per cent in 2015/16) . 6,119 Revenue Support Grant 6,219 9,870 Top-Up Grant 10,031 40,055 Business Rates 41,689 154,427 Council Tax 163,934 3,368 Collection Fund (Business Rates 3,649 and Council Tax) 213,839 Total Financing 225,522 Your Guide To Your Council Tax Bill 2020 to 2021 HAVE YOU ADED TO Sign up to E-billing UPGR SUPERFAST BROADBAND? Many people nowadays receive their bills online, whether it’s your de page See back insi electricity, gas or other utility bill. So why not receive your council tax for details bill this way rather than having a paper copy sent to you each year? To: S haro Receiving your bill by email would be more convenient for you, and From n Jon : Shr es opsh will also help us reduce our costs as we would no longer have to print ire Co uncil and post your bill. Yo ur Co e- uncil It also saves paper, so is much better for the environment. Bill fo Tax 7 r 202 0/20 So if you would like to sign up to e-billing log on to your council tax 21 citizen access account here https://www.shropshire.gov.uk/council-tax/your-account-online/ You’ll need your council tax account reference and your online password from your latest council tax bill in order to do this.
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