Financial challenge
What does this mean for me?
Where do I come in?
£171 million equals about £700 per person in Camden – it’s just like you earning £700 a year less and still having to pay for food, housing, clothes and transport.
When we need to make a big decision, we usually ask how the community feels. You are able to have your say in different ways – in online surveys, on social media, at meetings or by writing to us. We consider all feedback, and encourage residents and businesses to share their ideas on how we can continue to serve Camden while spending less money.
The budget cuts affect everything we do, but we are doing our best to be fair. Our priority is to make sure we spend our money where it will do the most good.
From 2010/11 to 2017/18 we will have reduced our budget by more than £171 million That’s the equivalent of a whole year’s spending on:
£3 2
m
Homelessness
£171
million
is equivalent to
£9 8
Adult social care
m
£3 7
£4 m
m
Waste and cleaning services
Parks and sport
Waste contract At their next meeting on 20 July, the Council’s Cabinet will decide which company will manage our rubbish, recycling and street-cleaning services from April next year. We have been working on this since 2015, when we asked for your feedback at area action groups, pop-up discussions and online. The new contract doesn’t come into effect until April 2017, so nothing will change immediately. To keep up to date with the waste contract and other Council projects, follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and keep reading your Camden magazine.
Find out more c amden.gov.uk/ financialchallenge
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