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How is £1 of council funding spent? 🧵
Councils provide hundreds of services in your area; looking after vulnerable people, keeping the streets clean and running leisure centres.
But the future financial sustainability of local services is on a cliff edge.
Councils provide hundreds of services in your area; looking after vulnerable people, keeping the streets clean and running leisure centres.
But the future financial sustainability of local services is on a cliff edge.
Demand for services caring for adults and children is increasing, while core funding from central government has not kept pace with demand or inflation since 2010.
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There’s just not enough money to do it all. Councils will have no choice but to spend much less on other important services, like fixing roads or keeping parks and libraries open.
Each year, #LocalGov helps adults to re-engage in learning, gain vital new skills and take next steps into work.
But Govt plans to limit this offer, risking stifling economic growth, leaving vacancies in crucial areas like social care, teaching & green tech.
But Govt plans to limit this offer, risking stifling economic growth, leaving vacancies in crucial areas like social care, teaching & green tech.
Growing the economy won’t be easily achieved if we can’t provide the routes to jobs of the future.
We need to be investing more now to give people the right skills to keep up with demand and provide the next generation of engineers, teachers, nurses and care workers.
We need to be investing more now to give people the right skills to keep up with demand and provide the next generation of engineers, teachers, nurses and care workers.
Every local area has its own unique mix of jobs, qualification levels, unemployment & vacancies - a one-size-fits-all national approach to tackling a looming skills deficit is not the solution.
We need more routes for people to access community-based learning, not less.
We need more routes for people to access community-based learning, not less.
Councils are often expected to use reserves to plug ongoing budget gaps and #SaveLocalServices.
Using reserves is not the solution to the financial pressures councils are facing.
A council reserves 🧵👇
Using reserves is not the solution to the financial pressures councils are facing.
A council reserves 🧵👇
Councils hold financial reserves so they can plan for the future & are used in 3 different ways.
Money is used to pay for both planned projects, such as renewing the town centre or harder to predict situations, like a pandemic or responding to emergencies like flooding.
Money is used to pay for both planned projects, such as renewing the town centre or harder to predict situations, like a pandemic or responding to emergencies like flooding.
Reserves help councils even out their cash flow. Govt grants often cover spending that happen in more than 1 year – having reserves lets councils use unspent funding for a specific purpose when it’s needed.
Eg money passed on by Govt to make COVID grants to local businesses.
Eg money passed on by Govt to make COVID grants to local businesses.
1⃣ The future financial sustainability of councils is on a cliff-edge. Without Government action, they will have no choice but to significantly cut the local services our communities – and economy – rely on. 🧵#SaveLocalServices
2⃣ Over the past decade, councils have already done more than their fair share of the heavy lifting when it comes to putting public finances on a more sustainable footing, with a £15 billion real terms reduction, almost 60p in every £1, to core government funding between 2010-20.
3⃣ Local government is the fabric of our country. It provides more than 800 services, many of which they are legally required to provide, and positively impacts the daily life of every person in every community.
