Southwark spending challenge

how the council spends your money Southwark spending challenge Environment Children’s services Adult services Regeneration and planning Culture, libraries and leisure Housing and community services Central and support services Public health

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Southwark spending challenge Each year the council publishes what is called the budget book. This describes the services that the council spends your money on, as agreed in the budget that is set by the council in February of each year. To view the budget book online visit www.southwark.gov.uk/budget

Council budgets Through the business and budget planning process, resources are allocated to services and this sets their budgets for the year(s). The council’s budget can be split into four main categories which are called: • • • •

General fund revenue budget Capital budget Housing revenue account (HRA) Schools budget

In 2014/15 the council will spend in the region of £1.8bn (£1.1bn after adjustments, like other forms of income, are taken into account). This is shown in the tables below:

Expenditure by type 11%

Expenditure type General fund expenditure budget Capital budget Housing revenue account Schools budget Total

£m 1,006 376 275 195 1,852

General fund revenue budget

15%

Capital budget HRA Schools budget 20%

54%

General fund revenue budget This is the money that the council spends on day to day running of the services it provides. It includes the costs of employees, supplies and services, premises and utility costs. It does not include the money spent on council housing, the capital budget and the money spent on schools. The general fund revenue budget is agreed annually by the council because the government tells us how much money they will give us each year.

NB: The Southwark spending challenge exercise is only about the general fund revenue budget.

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Capital budget Capital expenditure is money the council spends on acquiring and improving physical assets like buildings, roads and public spaces. Councils get separate funding for revenue and capital. The council agreed a ten year capital programme in 2012.

Housing revenue account (HRA) The housing revenue account (HRA) is the money that the council uses to look after its council housing.

Under law this must be kept separate from the general fund. The money in the housing revenue account mainly comes from the rents and service charges that the council collects from its tenants. No costs can be charged to council tax or business rates.

Precepts and levies Your council tax also pays for the services of the Greater London Authority (GLA). Money to pay for these services is raised through a charge on top of your council tax. This is called a precept and was £25.2m in 2014/2015. The council is also required by law to pay money to the Environment Agency (£194,000), the London Pension Fund (£1.4m) and the Lee Valley Regional Park (£266,000). These are called levies.

Where the money comes from Most of the money the council spends in its general fund revenue budget comes from grants from central government. The ratio between government grant and council tax in Southwark is almost 75% government grant to 25% council tax. This means that when central government reduces the grants it gives the council, it has a big impact on the money we can spend on your services. This is supplemented by what the council collects in other forms of income. In Southwark the council tax has not increased for the last five years. In 2015/2015 the different kinds of income the council received to spend on services is shown in the table below:

4% 2%

Income by type

Government and other grants Support services recharge income Fees and charges Other income Income from charges to HRA

5% 6%

75%

NB: For the purpose of the spending challenge we want your views on the general fund revenue budget. The figures given are net expenditure (after things like income have been removed).

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Southwark Council spending map Strategy, intensive family work and business support functions

£11.3m

Commissioning services for older people and adults with disabilities

(£12.6m)

Services for children at risk of abuse, harm or neglect or with disabilities

£13.9m

Care support for adults with learning disabilities

(£13.6m) Day care and respite services for older people and adults

£31.5m

(£3.1m)

(£35.7m)

(7.8m) Care support for adults with physical disabilities aged 16 to 64

NHS health check programme £0.4m (£0.8m)

Public health advice £3.1m (£1.9m)

Smoking and tobacco £0.6m (£0.7m)

£10.6m

£96.1m

Care for older people living at home or residential homes

£26.1m

(£6.2m)

(£4m)

Central and support services

Helping schools to improve

School nurses £1.4m (£1.8m)

Finance and financial services

£10m

£1.3m (£1.3m)

(£11.5m)

£64.6m

Net expenditure

(£72.2m)

Revenues and benefits

Net expenditure

£14.1m

£22m

Insurance

(£21.8m)

£4.4m

(£15m)

(£4.4m)

(£104.8m) Other public health servicess £0.1m (£0.2m)

Net expenditure Services for adults suffering with mental health illnesses

(£28.9m)

£85m

£6.9m

Electoral services £0.1m (£0.2m)

Public health

(£11.3m)

Corporate facilities management

£4m

(£86.3m)

Adult services

£6.2m

£0.9m (£0.9m)

(£5.2m)

£3.7m

Physical activity £0.6m (£0.4m)

Information and data services

Constitutional support and scrutiny

(£6.8m)

Youth work/youth clubs and adventure play grounds

Children’s services £8.6m

(£6.5m)

(£15.5m)

Human resources including learning and development

(£8.2m)

Sexual health services

£5.9m

£12.1m

(£16.4m)

(£52m)

£7.2m

Strategic financing

£14.4m

£54.3m

Substance misuse

£3m

Corporate strategy and economic wellbeing

Supporting vulnerable and disabled children to access education and training

£9.3m

£1.7m

Community engagement

Total council budget

(£2.1m)

Safeguarding adults and assuring quality provision

(£10.1m)

£4.8m (£4.8m)

Specialist housing services

£1.1bn

Operations

Housing and community services

£2.6m (£3.1m)

£0m (£0.1m) Repairs and compliance

£0.3m (£0.2m)

£22.2m (£25.3m) Highways, parks and open spaces

£5.9m (£6.2m)

General fund net expenditure £330

£38.8m

£18.7m

Net expenditure

£7.6m (£7.8m)

Street cleansing

£6.6m (£6.5m)

Planning and transport

£3.3m Net expenditure

£2.3m (£2.4m)

Culture, libraries and leisure

Schools £211m

Regeneration and planning

(£38.5m)

Community safety

Customer experience

Housing revenue account £269

Environment

Waste and transport (£18m)

Net expenditure

Regeneration eneration and strategy £1m (£0.7m)

Capital £275m

£14.5m

Sports and leisure services

(£17.1m)

£2.2m

£9.2m Arts and heritage

£1m

(£1.1m)

(£2.6m)

(£10m) Net expenditure

Libraries

£6m (£6.3m)

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Children’s services Youth work, youth clubs and adventure playgrounds (£3.7m) Provides youth clubs, training, volunteering opportunities, information, advice and guidance to help young people get the education, employment, training and support they need.

The play service provides opportunities for children and young people to play and learn in a safe supervised environment. There are eleven adventure playgrounds, a kart track, skate park, junior sports facility, three mobile play teams as well as play workers in school and home to school transport. It also provides term-time after school clubs and holiday play schemes.

Helping schools to improve (£1.3m) Improves standards of education, teaching and learning. Ensures a well trained and qualified workforce in primary schools, maintained secondary schools, maintained nursery schools and other early year’s provision. As well as supporting school governors and standards of school leadership.

Supporting vulnerable and disabled children to access education and training (£14.4m) Provides early years (children up to five years old), and children’s centres and help for families and children in schools and early years settings.

Works with children and families experiencing difficulties (education welfare, educational psychology and family support) and finds childcare and education places for children in need. The council has a legal duty to provide for the needs of children and young people with special educational needs. The majority is funded from the Dedicated Schools Grant.

Responsible for the 14 to 19 partnership ensuring education providers develop a curriculum that meets the needs of all young people. Supports 13 to 19 year olds into employment and training,

provides support to pupils not in mainstream schools, works with young parents, provides education for children and young people with no school place or unable to attend school and provides the Education Business Alliance.

Strategy, intensive family work and business support functions (£11.3m) Ensures that the council complies with legal requirements and that children’s services are well managed. Collects, records, manages and analyses data to meet the national standards.

Specialist services for children and families are commissioned, including placements for looked after children, support for vulnerable families and children and services that provide short breaks for children with disabilities. The specialist parenting service provides support to some of the most troubled families in Southwark.

Services for children at risk of abuse, harm, neglect or with disabilities (£54.3m) Protects children at risk of abuse, harm or neglect.

It provides services and support for looked after children, and those with disabilities. Works to prevent offending and re-offending by children and young people.

Schools and external funding Primarily relates to school budgets. Schools are mainly funded from the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) which is received from the Department for Education. This funding is dedicated to Southwark schools which is why it is not part of the spending challenge.

Children’s services provides a range of services to help parents and carers access schools for their children and a range of support for families with children at school. This includes school admissions, help with school meals, help with school uniforms, help with travel costs, school travel assistance and advice to parents on education.

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Adult services Commissioning of services for older people and people with disabilities (£13.9m) Gives grants and contracts to organisations to deliver adult social care services. It works to meet the needs of vulnerable people who have personal budgets for their care. It works across services for older people, disabilities, and supported housing services. It also performance manages and quality assures contracts for adult social care services to make sure that they meet the needs of users.

Care support for adults with physical disabilities aged 16 to 64 (£10.6m) Social workers providing assessment and care management to 16 to 64 year olds with physical disabilities, long term conditions and neurological disabilities. Supports people to live safe and independent lives in their own homes. Provides homecare services for those needing council managed care, and there are respite services should carers require a break. Provides assessment and support to children and adults with physical disabilities, requiring equipment and home adaptations or support to develop their confidence and independence.

Care support for adults with learning disabilities (£31.5m) Works to support adults with learning disabilities to live, work and learn in the community as independently as possible. It also includes residential and nursing care for those people who are unable to be independent at home. It works with people who have personal budgets for their care to make sure they have a personalised service built around them in their own home. Provides homecare services for those needing them and respite services to give carers a break. There are also day opportunities to provide respite, focus on independent living and access to employment, leisure and education.

Also manages the learning disabilities partnership board, a group of service users, carers, advocacy services and local service providers which work with services such as health, employment services, education and regeneration to develop and improve services and achieve better outcomes for people with learning disabilities.

Day care and respite services for older people and adults (£3m) Day centre and respite services are provided to service users to support them to continue living independently in the community. An assessment of need is undertaken before a referral and a charge is levied for the service. Services support groups including older people, adults with mental health conditions, adults and older people with physical, sensory and neurological conditions and children and adults with learning disabilities.

Care for older people living at home or in residential homes (£26.1m) Offers a comprehensive service for adults and older people with social care needs enabling them to live independent lives. It includes managing all enquiries about adult social care and the hospital discharge service, referrals to residential and nursing care. The reablement service works with people to maximise their independence. The community support service helps support people with personal budgets.

Services for adults suffering with mental health illness (£9.3m) Services for people suffering from common mental health illness and serious mental health illness.

Community based services, carer support services and residential/accommodation based services, commissioned from statutory, independent and third sector organisations. The substance misuse team supports adults aged 18 to 65 who are using drugs and/or alcohol and want to work towards abstinence.

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Safeguarding adults and assuring quality provision (£1.7m) Provides safeguarding advice to the public and advice to staff investigating safeguarding concerns. The personalisation team has a lead role in ensuring best practice in adult services. The carefirst team supports the social care IT system for managing the business. The service also includes various support service budgets including service strategy, business development, corporate health, complaints, IT, strategic management, quality assurance and performance.

Environment Highways, parks and open spaces (£5.9m) This service looks after street lighting, street furniture, highway maintenance, winter maintenance and parking meter maintenance. It produces the signs and street name plates and manages road works, licenses obstructions on the highway and deals with abandoned vehicles and parking to keep the highways and footways safe and free from obstructions.

Provides and maintains the 130 parks and public spaces, manages trees on highways, parks and estates. Manages cemeteries and crematoria and the South Dock Marina. Responsible for the implementation of public realm improvements like traffic calming, resurfacing, cycle schemes, bus priority schemes, cleaner, greener safer, car parking zones, road safety schemes, transport and highways improvement schemes.

Income is received from various sources that offset the cost to the council.

Street cleansing (£6.6m) Responsible for the sweeping and grounds maintenance of approximately 366km of public highway, sites adjacent to the highway, emptying

litter bins, removal of graffiti and fly tipping. Also cleans parks, street markets and hostels. Income is received from cleaning agreements with external organisations that offsets the cost.

Also cleans and maintains internal and external communal areas, grass cutting and shrub pruning in communal areas and grounds related work on housing estates. Responsible for the eradication of pest problems and management and maintenance of public conveniences.

Waste and transport (£18.7m) Responsible for the collection of domestic waste from over 120,000 properties, recycling from 85,000 properties, cleaning the borough’s roads, housing estates and open spaces.

Manages the disposal of 116,000 tonnes of waste each year from households (including schools, student hostels and care homes), street cleansing activities and provides a civic amenity facility where residents can dispose of bulky household waste free of charge.

Works in partnership with Veolia to deliver the council’s waste management strategy, increasing the borough’s recycling performance and diverting waste from landfill. This includes the purpose built waste and recycling facility on the Old Kent Road.

Also procures and maintains the council’s entire fleet of vehicles.

Community safety (£7.6m) It includes the Safer Southwark Partnership, the drug and alcohol action team, the reducing reoffending team. It provides teams that deal with noise and nuisance control, air quality and land contamination, entertainments, alcohol and special treatments licensing, night time economy team, food safety and standards, occupational health and safety and trading standards. Also responsible for resilience and emergency planning, the Southwark Anti Social Behaviour Unit, the wardens and enforcement service and CCTV.

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Culture, libraries and leisure

Housing and community services

Libraries (£6m) Responsible for 12 libraries and the home library service for residents unable to access libraries. Includes lending of books, recorded music and film; materials in a range of languages and formats and free access to ICT. Seven libraries offer free Wi-Fi. All have programmes of activities for adults, children and families including homework help, story times for children, reading groups for all ages, help with ICT, author events, holiday activities for children and young people and programmes of adult learning at John Harvard and Canada Water libraries.

Most of the money that the council spends on housing comes from rents and service charges that we collect from our tenants and homeowners (the housing revenue account) and is therefore not shown here.

Sports and leisure services (£2.2m) The provision, maintenance and expansion of 15 leisure facilities and services. Delivers a sports development service, which promotes health and the benefits of physical activity, training opportunities for young people in sports coaching, support for the voluntary sector, supporting formal and informal education. Also includes the leisure management contract with Fusion for the leisure centres.

Arts and heritage (£1m) The arts and heritage service comprises the arts service, the Cuming Museum, the council’s art collection, Kingswood House and the local history and archives service.

Adult learning service Provides learning opportunities for local people.

A range of courses (many leading to national qualifications) are offered from at least 45 venues including libraries, schools, children’s centres and community venues. Fully funded by the Skills Funding Agency and therefore is not part of the spending challenge exercise.

Community engagement and voluntary sector grants and contracts (£4.8m) Brings the council's services closer to the people it serves and involves them in the decisions the council makes. Delivers consultation and community engagement activities, gathering and reporting on residents’ views about the council and its services and getting residents involved in their management. Supports the five community councils and encourages people to get involved in their neighbourhoods. Manages the Mayor of Southwark’s office. The bulk of the expenditure is the provision of grants and contracts to voluntary sector organisations for services like the advice services that seek to support residents with a wide range of needs.

Repairs and compliance (£0.3m) Responsible for minor property adaptations and handypersons service to private sector tenants and homeowners. The service manages mainly HRA related services (repairs to council housing), but is also responsible for the installation and maintenance of adaptations to housing for those that need them and the handypersons service which fall within the general fund budget.

Specialist housing services (£2.6m) Responsible for the delivery of specialist housing functions like temporary accommodation and supported housing services to elderly, homeless and vulnerable people. The cost of this service is split between the housing revenue account and the general fund revenue budget.

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Operations (£0m) The bulk of the work of housing operations relates to day to day tenancy management services including tenancy checks, estate inspections and anti-social behaviour. This includes the management of empty properties, rent collection and arrears management. This is all funded through the housing revenue account.

Customer experience (£14.5m) Responsible for the council’s contact with customers ensuring that they get the services they need. It manages the customer service centre, service points and email enquiry service. It deals with complaints, manages the provision of blue badges and concessionary travel.

It provides the registrars and coroners services as well as the mortuary and coroners.

The Southwark mobile alarm response team provides a 24-hour, seven day a week monitoring and response service that offers security and help to older and vulnerable people allowing them to remain independent in their own home.

In addition to a night visiting support service to sheltered housing.

The homeless and housing options service finds people the housing they need whether in council housing, other social landlords or the private sector. This includes managing the council’s waiting list of those in need of housing, providing temporary accommodation, advice, signposting and referrals and homelessness prevention/placements.

Central and support services Human resources including learning and development (4m) Supports the management of the council’s staff and provides services like payroll, pensions administration and apprenticeships. Leads on workforce development to ensure that the council can deliver a modern, flexible and skilled workforce. Supports the training and development of council staff and works to ensure they are competent and skilled.

Corporate strategy and economic wellbeing (£5.9m) Works to develop new policy, strategies and plans, performance monitoring and reporting, partnership working and communications. Leads on the economic wellbeing strategy aiming to support the economy of the borough and ensure it benefits local people and housing strategy and the modernisation of council services.

Constitutional support and scrutiny (£0.9m) Supports the democratic and decison making bodies of the council and ensures that they are efficient, effective and accountable to the residents of Southwark.

Finance and financial services (£10m) Responsible for managing the council’s money to support all areas of council service provision.

Pays the bills, collects income and plans and reports on the council’s finances as well as being responsible for anti-fraud and internal audit.

Revenues and benefits (£14.1m) Responsible for the billing and collection of council tax and business rates and the administration of housing benefit, the council tax reduction scheme and Southwark Emergency Support scheme that helps people in crisis.

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Information and data services (£6.2m) Provides information and communications technology (ICT) support to all council services.

Corporate facilities management (£6.9m) Responsible for the direct management of the council's major operational buildings. It ensures that they are safe and well maintained for staff and the public who use them.

Insurance (£4.4m) Supports all of the services the council provides by providing insurance cover for things like highways slips and trips, alleged tree root incursion causing subsidence damage to private homes, housing related water damage to tenants’ property, motor claims for the council’s vehicle fleet as well as fire and other property losses from schools, housing and other council buildings.

Strategic financing (£12.1m) There are a number of budgets that are not allocated direct to departments and are managed centrally under this heading of strategic financing.

Includes contingency budgets, interest payments on loan debt, the youth fund and costs relating to the London Living Wage.

Electoral services (£0.1m) Runs all elections and referenda including elections for national bodies (UK and European parliaments), regional bodies (Greater London Assembly and the London Mayor) and the local council (borough council elections). It registers all eligible residents of the borough on the Register of Electors. It also maintains the statutory Register of Local Land Charges.

Regeneration and planning Regeneration and strategy (£1m) Leads on the council’s major regeneration schemes including the Elephant and Castle and Aylesbury, ensuring that they deliver benefits and opportunities for Southwark's communities.

It is working on the council’s promise to build new family homes on the Aylesbury Estate and at Elephant and Castle and is developing long term improvement plans for Camberwell and Peckham. Works on a number of smaller regeneration schemes to make the borough a better place to live, work and visit.

Planning and transport (£2.3m) Responsible for developing policies to guide land use and long-term physical development in Southwark. It decides planning applications, manages major transport projects and the council's building control service.

Public health The council has a £22m dedicated “public health” grant for services which help improve the health of people in Southwark. This grant does not cover day to day NHS services such as GP services, which are funded by the NHS. Sexual health services (£8.6m) Services to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). It includes testing and treatment services for people for STIs, including chlamydia and HIV. NHS health check programme (£0.4m) All adults aged between 40 to 74 are eligible for a free healthcheck. This gives them information as to whether, for example, they are at risk of heart disease, stroke or diabetes, and also gives them advice on how to get help for these conditions.

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Public health advice (£3.1m) Provides specialist advice on public health issues, and advises the council and NHS on how best to design services to improve health in the area.

Physical activity (£0.6m) Provides targeted exercise services aimed at people whose weight is affecting their health. These classes are often provided by leisure centres.

Substance misuse (£7.2m) Provides services to help prevent people from misusing drugs and alcohol, and also provides treatment and counselling services for people with an addiction to substances.

Smoking and tobacco (£0.6m) Includes stop smoking programmes, to both help inform adults and young people so that they do not take up smoking in the first place, but also to help people who smoke to give up.

5 to 19 public health programme (£1.4m) School nursing service provides help for schoolchildren with health issues and also immunises children from disease.

Other public health services (£0.1m) Includes programmes to encourage better nutrition in diets and work to encourage people to live healthier lives.

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