Budget 2016/17

Find out about the budget that we are proposing for the 2016/17 financial year.

Our budget information on income and expenditure for 2016/17 is contained within the Budget Digest.

Revenue Budget Digest 2016/17

Medium Term Resource Plan
A rolling document which demonstrates how the our financial resources will be deployed to deliver declared aims and priorities.

Torbay's cost comparisions
A benchmarking report for budget information by Public Health England.

We are committed to protecting funding to front line services, but with ever decreasing levels of funding even tougher choices need to be made about what to invest in and what to cut in order to achieve the efficiencies required.

How we have approached the challenge

Given the challenge facing us we have carried out reviews of all the services the council provides. Through these reviews we have been able to understand more detail about areas of activity provided across each service area including:

What is provided? An overview of the activities carried out.
Why it is provided? The basis of the provision (whether a service is statutory or not statutory).
What is the demand? What drives the demand for the activity.

Limitations and assumptions made

These reviews provide a snapshot of council services and activities at the time they were carried out, as we have tried to represent as far as we can the detail of what is provided.

Many council services have to respond to demands which are unknown at the time the budget is set. For example, the number of children who are referred to children’s services and may need support and / or care can change at any given time throughout the year - there is no way of predicting this demand on the service. As a result, budgets and services across the council are subject to change throughout the year so that we can respond to ever changing demands.

Where possible we have tried to ensure a consistent approach has been taken to understand the costs of a service.

Adult Social Care Service Review
Summary of service for the 2016-17 budget proposals.

Children’s Services Service Review - Safeguarding: Disabilities, Quality Assurance
Summary of service for the 2016-17 budget proposals.

Children’s Services Service Review – Safeguarding Service: Specialist Services, Intensive Youth
Summary of service for the 2016-17 budget proposals.

Children’s Services Service Review - Innovation Programmes, Business Support
Summary of service for the 2016-17 budget proposals.

Children’s Service Review - Safeguarding Service: Children in Need, Child Protection, Single Assessment, MASH
Summary of service for the 2016-17 budget proposals.

Children’s Service Review - Commissioning Unit Including Youth and External Contracts
Summary of service for the 2016-17 budget proposals.

Children’s Service Review - School Services
Summary of service for the 2016-17 budget proposals.

Public Health Service Review
Summary of service for the 2016-17 budget proposals.

Community Services Service Review - Building Control
Summary of service for the 2016-17 budget proposals.

Community Services Service Review - Community Protection and Private Housing Standards
Summary of service for the 2016-17 budget proposals.

Community Services Service Review - Concessionary Fares
Summary of service for the 2016-17 budget proposals.