Budget Consultation for Adult Social Care

Overview

Birmingham City Council is facing a big challenge, over seven years we have to cut the budget by half. We have never faced such big cuts to government funding before. In the past we have made lots of changes to improve our services and get better value for money. But because of the size of the savings we will have to make really big changes to what we do. These changes will have an impact on everyone in the city. Over the summer we met with citizens and staff to discuss our ideas, we called this a ‘dialogue’. We have now finalised our proposals and you can read these in “People Directorate, 2014/15 Proposed Budget Consultation: Consultation Document” (attached below).

In the consultation document, the proposals are split into two sections.

• The first Section, “A Fair Deal in Times of Austerity” sets out the future model for the assessment and support planning service. It also sets out the values and principles that underpin this.
• The Green Papers and the dialogue over the summer have resulted in 23 proposals which are detailed in Section 2. We have grouped the proposals together under seven themes:

1. Radically change service delivery of Specialist Care Services
2. Consistency between children’s services and adult services
3. Integrating and aligning our services with the NHS.
4. Public Health;
5. Supporting People;
6. Homelessness; and
7. Healthwatch

Please help us understand your views by filling in this questionnaire.

This consultation will commence on 2nd January and conclude on 17th February 2014.