The pandemic has had a profound impact on all of our finances, including the council’s. This year alone it has cost the council £60 million, and with the health emergency still not over, the costs are expected to rise even higher.
Despite the challenges, by law the council must set a balanced budget for 2021-22. We need to save £40 million over the next two years and have set out our draft plans to achieve this. We want to know what you think of our proposals and encourage you to have your say. Find out more here:
We are consulting on our proposals between 4 December 2020 until 17 January 2021. Have your say by completing the short forms below here on Let’s talk Newcastle Online or by emailing us here: letstalk@newcastle.gov.uk
Here are our budget documents which give an overview of what we propose:
- Build Forward Better - our medium-term plan for 2021-22 and 2022-23
- Appendix 1 - Revenue and capital plan 2021-22
- Appendix 2 - Summary of service proposals 2021-22 and 2022-23
We have undertaken Integrated Impact Assessments (IIAs) for proposals that will impact on services in 2021-2022:
- IIA 1 Adult Social Care - Financial Management
- IIA 2 - Adult Social Care - Supported Housing options for people with a learning disability, Autism or both
- IIA 3 Children's Social Care - Keeping families safely together
- IIA 4 Children's Social Care – In-House Residential Care
- IIA 5 Public Health - a 'whole systems' approach to obesity
- IIIA 6 Council Tax and Adult Social Care PreceptWe also have a survey to capture people's general comments on our budget proposals as a whole:
If you have any questions about this or you need the consultation materials in different formats, such as large print, you can email us at letstalk@newcastle.gov.uk, or write to us at: FREEPOST Let’s Talk.
What happens next
We will consult on our draft budget proposals from 4 December 2020 until 17 January 2021. In February 2021, Cabinet will agree the post-consultation budget and will recommend it to full Council. Council will then meet in March 2021 to debate and vote on the budget. We will publish the final budget proposals, including a report on the consultation findings, on our website: Newcastle City Council Thank you for giving us your views.
