Thread by @HughCasswell

NEW: Series of cost-cutting proposals published by Nottingham City Council as it looks to balance its books, including:

- Closure of 6 Children's Centres
- New charge for 2nd & 3rd permits in residential parking zones (1st still free)
- Charge for bulky waste collections

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- Some Linkbus services reduced
- Medilink fares increased
- Reduced play & youth services
- 91 council job cuts
- Council tax up by 2.99% (incl 1% social care levy)

Would all save £12.2m, with £15.7m more still to come in the new year

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All still to be agreed by Council's Exec Board a week today, before going out to public consultation

@cllrsamwebster says it's due to "the increase in demand for social care...the costs for these services is increasing year on year and the Government isn't compensating us"

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Critics will naturally point towards past failings such as collapse of Robin Hood Energy but Cllr Webster says it was "dealt with as a one-off issue" and the council would have to make savings regardless

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All being done under the watchful eye of the Government-appointed Improvement & Assurance Board which said in its most recent report that it expected to see a Medium-Term Financial Plan covering next 4 years by this month. Council now says it won't be published until February

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