How we will spend 2025/26 Budget
Where the money is spent
Your council budget for running costs in 2025/26 is £592.568 Million.
The amount allocated for our 14 main areas for service delivery is as follows:
- Health and Social Care for Adults - £112.9M (19.1%)
- Primary Schools - £66.9M (11.3%)
- Secondary Schools - £98.3M (16.6%)
- Social Work for Children and Families - £37.5M (6.3%)
- Early Learning and Childcare - £34.9M - (5.9%)
- Additional Support Needs including schools - £26.7M (4.5%)
- Other Education Support - £4.9M (0.8%)
- Waste Collection, Cleansing and Recycling - £23.2M - (3.9%)
- Roads, Infrastructure and Public Transport - £14M - (2.4%)
- Planning and Building maintenance - £27.7M (4.7%)
- Communities and public protection - £16.6M (2.8%)
- Support for local business and regeneration - £3m (0.5%)
- One Ren - £14.1M - (2.4%)
- Digital, Transformation and Customer Services - £24.1M (4.1%)
(The amount of total council budget is also shown as a % and is rounded up to the nearest decimal point.)
There is a small number of services and spend that support the way the council operates. These budgets are regularly reviewed and are subject to a planned programme of changes to find efficiencies and savings.
- Finance and Corporate Governance - £42.5M (7.2%)
- Central Services - £45.3M (7.5%)
Council budget
