The People's Budget
The People's Budget shows the average choices made by people who have completed the Budget Challenge.
City Status
Legal Duties
Local Economy
Residents Affected
People's Budget Allocation
Income Area
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Council Tax and Adult Social Care Precept
Allocated Budget to Services
Adult Social Care
Adult social care includes direct and commissioned services provided for adults with learning and physical disabilities and mental health needs and older people with care needs.
Children and Families Newcastle
Children and Families Newcastle includes children in care, family help, child protection and our community family offer, along with partnerships, commissioning and assurance.
Refuse, Waste Collection and Disposal
Refuse, waste collection and disposal includes refuse and recycling collections and the disposal of waste.
Early Years and Education
Early years and education includes home to school transport, adult learning and the PFI costs associated with the school buildings. The spend on individual schools is excluded as this is funded separately by dedicated schools grant.
Culture, Leisure and Libraries
Culture, leisure and libraries includes customer contact, libraries, museums arts and culture, leisure services and parks.
Maintaining Highways
Maintaining highways the maintenance of the highways network and costs of street lighting.
Maintaining Neighbourhoods
Maintaining neighbourhoods includes street cleansing services, including road and pavement cleansing, litter removal, removal of fly-tipping and graffiti.
Planning and Development
Planning and development includes planning applications, enforcement of building and planning regulations and housing.
Fixed and Restricted Budgets
Funding for Public Health, Housing and essential corporate costs. This funding is legally restricted or committed and cannot be reallocated to other Council services.
Business and Economic Development
Business and economic development includes economic development and major capital projects and programmes.
Enforcement and Regulation
Enforcement and regulation includes environmental protection and public protection, trading standards, licensing, resilience planning and Safe Newcastle.
Enabling and Business Functions
Central and support services include Legal, ICT, Human Resources, Financial Services, Democratic Services, Policy, Communications and Performance and a range of cross-organisation traded and income generating services.
New Capital Expenditure
Capital spending can only be used to build infrastructure, such as highways and new buildings. By law, we cannot use our capital budget to fund revenue expenditure on day to day services.