Our savings in East Sussex - planning our budget for 2016-19

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Our Savings in East SussexPlanning our budget for 2016-19


We serve a county of more than 530,000 residents.

We’ll spend about £1,400 each year for everyhousehold in the county over the next three years.


But we have to find savings of at least £70 million by 2019 – starting in April. This is becausethe size of the state in the UK is being cut back. Planning is underway for an estimated

saving of £70-£90 million over the three years from 2016/17 to 2018/19.

£70m


At the moment we have total resources of £370 million, mostly spent on providing services.

Estimated saving of £70-£90 million by 2019.

Ourtotal

resources

This will mean making savings of around 20 per cent from our current budget.

£70million


The result is enormous pressure on frontline services in East Sussex.

The services we provide in future will look very different – changing, shrinking or in some cases disappearing altogether.


We receive £65 million in our main grant from the government;by 2019 this is likely to fall below £19 million. By 2019 East Sussex

will have a further 5,700 residents aged over 65 and 1,600 aged over 85.Older people are much more likely to need support.

Continuing rise in number of residents who want our services

Our grant from central government continues to be cut

Reducedfunding

This is happening because our funding is falling and demand for services is rising.


We saved £64 million in the currentthree-year period and £14 million

over the previous three years.

The saving we need to make comes on top of £78 million we’ve already saved. We’ll have £600 less for each household in East Sussex than we used to.

£600less for each

household


We’ve shown how flexible and prudent we are. For example, we’ve cut the number of senior managers at the council by a quarter.

£27mThe combined annual cost of our business

services andgovernance services.

£70-90mThe savings we still need to make.

But back office cuts willno longer be enough.


£70mAnnual cost of

our libraries

£5.4m

Annual cost of Children’s Centres

£5.8m

Annual cost of our early intervention

services for vulnerable adults

£17.5m* Examples for illustration only

Every service will be affected. And wherever savings are found, they’ll need to be substantial. This is just an example but it shows how

the total cost of three major service areas isless than half the £70m-£90m saving needed.


The largest part of our budget is already committed to services we must provide.The savings we need to find will have to come from the remaining fifth of our budget. Our choices are very limited.

More than 80 per cent of our gross budgetof £780m offers almost no potential for savings.

They will need to be found from the remaining £141m.

80%

20%Some

scope for savings.

Limitedscope.

Spendingcommitted to schools,highways,children in

care, waste,adult socialcare & other

services


We’re joining up resources for health and social care to providethe best possible services under East Sussex Better Together

By far the biggest part of our budget is for the most vulnerable people in East Sussex. Two-thirds of our spending goes on a quarter of the population.

65%

35%

25%75%


We’ll find new ways of working with our partners and the community.

In future services in East Sussex will look very different. Councillors will make tough choices based on evidence. We’ll need to be imaginative too.


We’ll still be able to spend around £350 million on services each year. But, more than ever, we’ll need to make every penny count. Helping people

help themselvesElected members will use our priorities to guide us through these very challenging times for East Sussex and take control of the future as far as possible:

Keeping vulnerablepeople safe

Driving economic growth


How should we tackle this?

We’re already making plans but we want to know how residents and our partners feel we should take these tough choices. Our three-year spending plan will be fully worked up between now and January, before elected members make final decisions.

For more information:

eastsussex.gov.uk/savings

Our savings in East Sussex - planning our budget for 2016-19

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