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We need the government to care about care

by Frank le Duc
Sunday 12 Jan, 2020 at 12:05AM
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Labour and the Greens agree to work together on key issues in Brighton and Hove

Nancy Platts

As 2020 gets into full swing at the council, the budget-setting process draws nearer.

Local authorities must deliver balanced budgets but with funding from central government cut over the last decade it gets harder for us to provide the essential services our residents expect.

One of the biggest financial strains on council budgets is social care. This covers children’s services, social work, support for older people, support for those with illness or disability, for those with mental health problems or learning difficulties, for homeless people and those struggling with addiction, for victims of domestic abuse or neglect, fostering, adoption, working with young offenders and the training and support for carers and social workers.

I recently met with the chief executive of the Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group – the CCG – and I am looking forward to working with his team at the NHS to improve our local health and social care services.

The need for high-quality social care here and across the country has never been greater and, with our increasingly ageing population, the demand is growing but so are the costs.

We have a real challenge to deliver high quality social care for the money that is available.

The cost of social care takes up almost half of our council budget. I was disappointed that in the Queen’s speech there was still no plan and no funding package for social care.

This creates a huge burden for local councils whose budgets are being cut despite demand rising. This means we are forced to make cuts elsewhere.

Money is really tight, but we have so much we want to invest in locally. We want to improve our bin services and clean up our streets, we want to support our schools, build more homes and decarbonise our city.

The sad reality is, that the longer the government leaves it before they address the social care crisis, the more our population ages and the more the cost of social care goes up.

We will continue to deliver legal balanced budgets, we will continue to invest in social care and we will continue to be ambitious for our city.

We just urgently need the government to match that ambition and deliver a proper social care plan.

Councillor Nancy Platts is the Labour leader of Brighton and Hove City Council.

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  1. Peter Challis says:
    5 years ago

    So getting close to the time for the annual 4% increase in council tax to fund more pet schemes that activist councillors want and for you then to blame the government when you haven’t sufficient left for providing statutory services?

    I see that Lewes District Council has collected rubbish for the A27 – where are Brighton & Hove City Council?

    How much will your “zero carbon” initiative cost, and what will be the pre-defined success criteria? Perhaps you should have focused on bins and cleaning streets rather than “decarbonising the city” which is a policy dreamed up by the council which will probably only affect council services and offer no significant payback. Perhaps leave such actions to the government and let them fund the climate activities?

    If you cant financially support schools, then perhaps hand them over to academies that know how to run them economically?

    How about looking at increasing income by encouraging more visitors to come to the city and support local businesses rather than encouraging lucrative customers to go elsewhere and using the increased council revenues to fund your “wacky” schemes.

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  2. Rolivan says:
    5 years ago

    How much is it costing Council Taxpayers to fund the effects of City of Sanctuary status?

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