Telford & Wrekin Council has rubber stamped a council tax rise to support the rising cost of adult and children social care.
Telford & Wrekin Council has rubber stamped a council tax rise to support the rising cost of adult and children social care.The local authority has increase its council tax precept by 4.99 per cent for the next financial year.
Councillor Natan England, the council's cabinet member for finance, said that only getting a one-year financial settlement from central government in December made it tough for the local authority to forward plan. Councillor England added that inflationary pressures had seen the cost of delivering adult and social care rise 50 per cent in two years.
“In previous years we had stabilisation, it’s just been that we’ve seen a massive hike. I’m hopeful that we’ll see a stabilisation.” Councillor Tomlinson said over the budget set last year there was an additional demand of £12 million for adult and children’s social services.He added that the council is expecting to draw out of reserves of £6.7m for the current financial year.
He asked the local authority to review the capital expenditure ‘stringently’, adding that he was ‘concerned’ about aspects of the communications budget.
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