LISTED: Service by service, Portsmouth City Council's £9m savings plan
Support for sexual health, alcohol and drug misuse work, trade unions, community centres as well as cultural bodies in Portsmouth is to be cut back.
Here’s a breakdown of where the council plans to save money from 2017/18:
Children’s Social Care
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Hide Ad1. To reduce the length of time children spend in short term, out of home, placements by 10%
Saving 2017/18: £100,000
2. Reducing the number of children who need a service by children’s social care by providing earlier support to families
2017/18: £50,000
3. Implementation of regional adoption agency
2017/18: £50,000
4. Remodelling of residential care provision
2017/18: £100,000
Children’s Social Care Total Savings
2017/18: £300,000
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Culture, Leisure and Sport
5. In-house provision of Grounds Maintenance works for parks and other leisure sites
2017/18: £230,000
6. Library Staff Structure changes - Management Review
2017/18: £34,000
7. Reduction in revenue grant to the Portsmouth Cultural Trust
2017/18: £60,000
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2017/18: £2,000
9. Community Centres
2017/18: £1,600
10. Buckland Community Centre - Reduction in grant support Grant award 2017/18 will be £13,000
2017/18: £1,300
11. Fratton Community Centre - Reduction in grant support Grant award 2017/18 will be £26,000
2017/18: £1,200
12. Paulsgrove Community Centre - Reduction in grant support Grant award 2017/18 will be £19,000
2017/18: £1,000
13. Seafront Savings - Closure of Seafront building
2017/18: £12,500
Culture, Leisure and Sport Total Savings
2017/18: £343,600
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Education
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Hide Ad14. Reduction in the administrative staffing support for the Education Service
2017/18: £48,500
15. Head of Sufficiency, Participation and Resources post to be part-funded by Basic Need Capital Funding and Catering Contract Pay Back Mechanism
2017/18: £7,700
16. Part-time secondment arrangement with Southampton City Council for the Post-16 Commissioning Manager role
2017/18: £25,700
17. Reduction in the Youth Not in Employment Education or Training (NEET) data tracking service by one full-time equivalent member of staff
2017/18: £22,500
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Hide Ad18. Reduction in staffing in the Children’s Services Data and Performance Management team
2017/18: £26,300
19. Reduction in staffing of the Early Years Advisory Teachers
2017/18: £63,000
20. Cessation of Governors Services
2017/18: £18,300
Education Total Savings
2017/18: £212,000
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Environment and Community Safety
21. Cemetery Fees - Increase of fees to the average level of surrounding local authorities
2017/18: £32,000
22. CCTV contract and service efficiencies
2017/18: £15,000
23. Cease voluntary sector grant payments made by the Directorate of Regulatory Services and Community Safety
2017/18: £15,000
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with Southampton City Council)
2017/18: £5,000
25. Additional staff re-charges to the two major coastal defence schemes currently in progress
2017/18: £10,000
26. Reduction in the reactive maintenance budget
2017/18: £10,000
Environment and Community Safety Total Savings
2017/18: £87,000
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Governance, Audit and Standards Committee
27. Registrars - Increased fee income as a result of higher demand for ceremonies
2017/18: £19,500
28. Registrars - Increase fees for some ceremonies
2017/18: £10,500
Governance, Audit and Standards Committee Total Savings
2017/18: £30,000
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Health and Social Care
29. Direct Payments to be delivered only using prepaid cards
2017/18: £100,000
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Hide Ad30. Set Direct Payment rate for Personal Assistants at National Living Wage
2017/18: £20,000
31. Review of high cost Learning Disability cases
2017/18: £100,000
32. New framework for supported living
2017/18: £30,000
33. The deregistration of appropriate Learning Disability care homes and the transfer to supported living accommodation - Also the development of Nessa Street and the resultant cost savings of the new facility
2017/18: £112,000
34. Increased use of Assistive Technology within the Learning Disability environment
2017/18: £50,000
35. Review of the Carers Service - To include staffing, accommodation and service
options
2017/18: £130,000
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Hide Ad36. Review of high cost Older Persons and Physical Disability Packages of care cases
2017/18: £50,000
37. Review of low cost packages of care with the possibility of a percentage of non-personal care clients to be transferred to a willing VCS
2017/18: £50,000
38. Adult Mental Health Service Review
2017/18: £75,000
39. Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (Adults element) Staffing restructure
2017/18: £50,000
40. General staffing savings from existing vacancies throughout Adult Social Care
2017/18: £150,000
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Hide Ad41. Only use preferred providers for domiciliary care packages where possible.
2017/18: £75,000
42. Replace two Qualified Social Worker posts at QAH (vacancies) with Independent Support Assistant for less complex cases
2017/18: £20,000
43. Impact of Community Independence Service implementation
2017/18: £50,000
44. Efficiency saving in In-House Care homes
2017/18: £150,000
45. Increase occupancy at Harry Sotnick House Nursing Home - Reduced commissioning costs and increased income
2017/18: £170,000
46. Remodelling of the sexual health service
2017/18: £182,300
47. Remodel existing substance misuse and alcohol contracts Fewer people with substance misuse and alcohol problems will receive treatment
2017/18: £346,300
48. Conduct review of service to reduce staff costs
2017/18: £73,400
Health and Social Care Total Savings
2017/18: £1,984,000
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Housing
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Hide Ad49. Retendering of Homeless Day Centre and integration with substance misuse services
2017/18: £30,000
50. Rent deposit scheme for single people being brought in house
2017/18: £20,000
51. Floating tenancy support for families
2017/18: £50,000
52. I-Dox - IT Support Saving and staff efficiencies due to ability to work remotely and more efficiently
2017/18: £24,000
53. Additional Income from operating a Private Sector Rental Management Service
2017/18: £20,000
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Hide Ad54. Additional Income from implementing a charge to RSLs for managing the waiting list & nominating tenants for their properties
2017/18: £25,000
55. Increase Deminimus Capital Receipts
2017/18: £10,000
Housing Total Savings
2017/18: £179,000
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Planning Regeneration and Economic Development
56. Planning - Review of Planning administration and support
2017/18: £18,000
57. Income from Commercial Property Acquisitions
2017/18: £300,000
58. Long lease disposal of land at White Hart Road and subsequent re-investment at an improved yield of 6%
2017/18: £500,000
59. Additional Rental Income from existing Portfolio
2017/18: £70,000
60. PCMI Manufacturing - Additional Income
2017/18: £15,000
61. Additional income from the new services in the Enterprise Centres
2017/18: £25,000
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2017/18: £928,000
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Resources
62. Shared management responsibilities with another authority
2017/18: £198,000
63. Review of Family Information Services and management structure within the City Help Desk and implementation of electronic means of communication with customers
2017/18: £55,000
64. Review of democratic services processes
2017/18: £25,000
65. Shared service with another authority
2017/18: £44,000
66. Reduction in transactional processing staff
2017/18: £11,000
67. Reduction in postage use by switching to email
2017/18: £1,800
68. Reduction in Accountancy resource requirement including reduction from five teams to four
2017/18: £78,000
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Hide Ad69. Introduction of charge for street naming & numbering service
2017/18: £15,000
70. Shared services opportunities for Procurement Services
2017/18: £15,000
71. Telephony provision to other services and organisations
2017/18: £11,000
72. Deletion of part time post following service review and restructure
2017/18: £19,000
73. Reduction in demand for system support arising from move of two IT applications to cloud based solutions and consolidation of other systems
2017/18: £97,000
74. Income from sale of Datacentre spare capacity
2017/18: £15,000
75. Category management initiatives from demand management
2017/18: £63,100
76. Contract management - savings on external spend
2017/18: £10,000
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2017/18: £12,500
78. Review staff training provision
2017/18: £70,000
79. Opportunities to increase income by developing shared service and trading arrangements with other authorities and organisations
2017/18: £25,000
80. Reduction In Trade Union support
2017/18: £75,000
81. Accommodation charge to the Housing Revenue Account following staff relocation to the Civic Offices from Chaucer House
2017/18: £51,000
82. Additional Income from Energy Projects carried out either directly or through a company structure
2017/18: £70,000
Resources Total Savings
2017/18: £961,400
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Traffic and Transportation
83. Review of Travel Concession administration
2017/18: £100,000
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2017/18: £20,000
85. Reduction in non-PFI highways maintenance
2017/18: £25,000
86. Reduction in Traffic Management Centre IT maintenance costs and recharges
2017/18: £25,000
87. Additional staff re-charges for Business Support and Administration to non-General Fund budgets
2017/18: £50,000
88. Reduction in staff training
2017/18: £5,000
89. Reduction in use of Agency staff
2017/18: £25,000
90. Additional income from charging event organisers for Traffic & Transportation activity
2017/18: £5,000
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2017/18: £50,000
92. Income from Transport Strategy and Policy activity
2017/18: £15,000
93. Additional Income from Traffic & Transportation traded services
2017/18: £10,000
Traffic and Transportation Total Savings
2017/18: £330,000
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Other Expenditure
94. Debt Servicing Costs - MRP Policy Change
2017/18: £1,348,000
95. Debt Servicing Costs - MRP Policy Change - MRP Holiday
2017/18: £1,797,000
96. Review of Local Council Tax Support Scheme
2017/18: £500,000
Other Expenditure Total Savings
2017/18: £3,645,000
You can read the complete detailed list of proposed savings on Portsmouth City Council’s website.