Set Your Budget
Choose how much to spend on each service area while keeping the overall budget balanced.
Total Council
budget
£404m
Already
allocated
£43m
Fixed or restricted
and cannot be moved
For you
to allocate
£361m
Your budget spend is
£404 million
This is how the budget is made up
Your Allocation
Income Area
Help your budget by generating income
Council Tax and Adult Social Care Precept
Service Areas
Help meet your target by allocating funds in key areas.
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.
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