At a glance Labour's budget: headline figures
Adult services
- - Reducing care management team - saves £130,000 and costs 5 jobs
- - Cutting its support and accommodation to vulnerable old people, mentally ill, drug and alcohol addicts, battered women as well - saves £370,000
- - Ending advice and information contract with Age Concern and cutting elderly day care contracts - saves £59,000
- - Stopping supporting for HIV/Aids counselling - saves £33,000
- - Slashing the Drugs Action team budget - saves £105,000
Children's services
- - Cutting children's centre staff and services - saves £935,0000 and cuts 18 jobs
- - Cutting learning support staff - saves £58,000 and costs two jobs
- - Closure of children's unit for traumatised eight to 12-year-olds, Our House - saves £628,000 and costs 21 jobs
- - Reducing managers - saves £833,000 and costs 17 jobs
- - Cut youth support workers - saves £458,000 and costs 24 jobs
Communities and transport
- - Cutting adult learning courses - saves £90,000
- - Regeneration team reduction - saves £102,000 and costs 3 jobs
- - Reducing City Limits, a employment and training service for disabled and disadvantaged people - saves £133,000 and costs 2 jobs
Environment and transport
- - Cutting back on bin and waste staff, what can be recycled and recycling centre opening hours - saves £357,000 and costs 7 jobs
- - Reduce lollipop men - saves £15,0000
- - Evening car parking charges - earns £300,000
- - First time residents' annual permit fee of £30 - earns £115,000
- - 5 per cent increase in parking charges - earns £250,000
- - 5 per cent increase in burial, cremation, pest control, registration ceremonies, earns £80,00
- - Reducing planning team - saves £95,000 and costs four jobs
- - Charging for garden waste removal - earns £542,000
- - Ditching subsidies to buses, including evening, night buses, Sunday and Bank Holiday services - saves £404,000
- - Slashing road safety education funding - saves £50,0000
- - Port Health to be run within environmental department - cots 2 jobs
Housing and leisure services
- - Closing city tourist information service and replacing with a computer in SeaCity museum - saves £46,000 but costs two jobs
- - Archaeology service closed - costs 10 jobs
- - Reducing Leisure and culture team - saves £200, 000 but cost 5 jobs
- - Reducing library staff, weekly opening times by five or 10 hours, Saturday mobile library, book budget, merging book bus with mobile library - saves £97,000 and cots 12 jobs
- - Cutting events team - saves £25,000 with the loss of 2 jobs
- - Parks and ground maintenance - saves £580,000 and costs 19 jobs
- - Street cleaning staff and machine and services cuts - saves £400,000 and costs 13 jobs
- - Tree and environment staff - saves £129,000 and costs 2 jobs
- - Reducing art gallery opening times from 10am to 5pm to 10am to 2pm - saves £60,000 and costs 2 jobs
Leader's office
- - Closing dedicated press office - saves £95,000 with the loss of 3 jobs
- - Senior manager posts reduction - saves £360,000 and costs 3 jobs
- - Cutting two Cabinet posts - saves £26,000
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