Adult care spending has to focus on essentials
SPENDING on adult care in Derby is being focused on the essential services Derby City Council has to offer, in the wake of funding cuts.
Councillor Fareed Hussain, cabinet member for adults and health, said he was having to take a shorter term view than he would like because of budget constraints.
-
Councillor Fareed Hussain, from Derby City Council.
Currently, about 80% of the money spent on adult care is on statutory services – ones the council is obliged to provide.
It means a disproportionate amount of cuts – nearly 60% – are earmarked for discretionary areas.
Business Cards From Only £10.95 Delivered www.myprint-247.co.uk
View detailsOur heavyweight cards have FREE UV silk coating, FREE next day delivery & VAT included. Choose from 1000's of pre-designed templates or upload your own artwork. Orders dispatched within 24hrs.
Terms: Visit our site for more products: Business Cards, Compliment Slips, Letterheads, Leaflets, Postcards, Posters & much more. All items are free next day delivery. www.myprint-247.co.uk
Contact: 01858 468192
Valid until: Sunday, June 30 2013
Mr Hussain said if the council was not having to make £62 million of savings during the next three years to balance the budget, he would want to spend more to avoid storing up problems.
He said: "With the financial situation we have got, we are not in a position to cover the longer-term risks and I would want to cover all those if I could.
"I know this budget will help us jump the hurdles we face for the next two or three years but if the fears begin to become true we will have a higher volume needing our support and we won't have the option of kicking the can down the road."
Comments
by Derby_born
Wednesday, December 26 2012, 6:58PM
“The council is facing the same funding problems faced by the ppreviuos administration. Maybe if they had done as Santaclause suggests and mortgaged the Council House, sold off office space and stopped paying rents for other office space, the money could have been spent on services?
But of course, with no offiices to work from, they'd need to sack most of the Council staff, but they would save even more money!”
by SantaClause__
Wednesday, December 26 2012, 11:08AM
“There should be NO cuts to these kind of services. Not while there is money being wasted onn unneccessary velodromes, council houses, and other non essential spending.”
by NewForOld
Wednesday, December 26 2012, 10:23AM
“Again Hussain was one of those prior to the last election saying Labour would protect these sort of services. Maybe more people would have voted Conservative had they been truthful?”