The Council has faced large budget
cuts and has maintained its focus on providing high quality
services and has developed plans to become more efficient and
streamlined without compromising service standards. The Council
delivered savings of £20.3 million in 2011/12 and has planned
savings of £9.8 million in 2012/13 and a further £8.7 million over
the following two years.
To meet ongoing budget pressures we will maintain our focus on
maximising efficiency and effectiveness. This involves looking
at our assets to seek opportunities for more efficiency, improving
transparency about our performance and spend and making our
services more accessible.
We aim to ensure that the Council provides efficient, effective
and value for money services.
In the last two years we have:
- Made £35m worth of savings especially in back
office services, including ‘invest to save’ options to maximise the
Council’s income allowing extra investment in frontline Adult
Social Services and Children’s Services
- Developed the Office Accommodation Strategy
to reduce office use
- Carried out Regular
Meet the Council Leader Events, created a dedicated Leader’s
Inbox and Leader’s Blog
- Reviewed the Council’s decision making
process
- Improved transparency at the Town Hall by
publishing Council
expenditure online
- Established Redbridge i as a leading local
government website that averages around 800,000 page views and over
250,000 visits per month
- Run two successful Redbridge Conversations
using YouChoose, with the
2010/11 consultation securing over 4,000 responses, and developed
and launched an
e-petition facility
By 2014 we aim to:
- Continue to improve the efficiency of the
Council’s property assets
- Continue to drive out efficiencies, look for
back office savings and to reduce middle and senior management
- Improve Council decision making and reduce
the cost of our administration
- Increase the number of services available on
the Council website and encourage residents to do more business
on-line
- Develop an updated version of YouChoose so it
can be used for a wide range of consultations and extend
Redbridge Card functionality
- Continue to improve the profile of
Redbridge and our relations with national and regional
government
- Explore joint commissioning and shared
services where these will improve services and efficiency
- Have had no increase in Council Tax
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