In this year’s Annual report, Cllr Roulstone ( Cabinet member for Finance) stated: A casual reader of this would be led to believe that the Council had set a balanced budget at […]
Council’s £21m overspend “airbrushed” as a “balanced budget”
Conservative administration “reveals its hand” in first detailed Budget update – Care required!
Since May 2018, there have been a number of reports presented to the Cabinet about gaps in the Council budget: 2018 / 19 – £21m gap ( £12m caused by the overspend […]
Council finds £5.3m new savings! Choose to save care/library services, or create 11 more senior management jobs costing £500k pa?
The Council Cabinet will be discussing its 2018/19 Budget next week following a period of consultation at the end of 2017. It found savings in the budget of £5.3m principally due to: […]
Derby City Council propose cutting 100% of all Voluntary Sector grants: Do they know the consequences?
In my earlier article, “Derby City Council has “lost the plot” on Voluntary Sector Grants” I provided a critique of the Council’s most recent consultation into the funding of the Voluntary, Community […]
Derby City Council Budget: Protest about damaging political cuts!
Derby City Council issued their 2016-19 Budget Consultation, yesterday. This makes proposals for how they will deliver the plan for the next 3 years and is open for public feedback by 5 […]
Derby City Council’s “Big Conversation” is a charade and limp party politicking
Last week, Ranjit Banwait, the leader of Derby City Council re-invigorated the “Big Conversation”. Despite the recent consultation in 2014, the Council sees the need to ask the public again, essentially the […]
Derby City Council Budget: Short on detail to explain £69m cuts.
Although the Council has issued a comprehensive 95 page report entitled “Derby’s 15 Year Vision and Budget Consultation 2015 to 2018” there seems to be some misunderstanding and mis-directed skepticism with the […]
