Both Shropshire Council and Telford and Wrekin Council are often known as unitary authorities, which suggests they’re liable for all main native providers, reminiscent of schooling, social care, highway upkeep and kerbside waste collections.
They additionally handle libraries, leisure amenities, public transport, inexperienced areas and recycling centres.
Despite the lengthy record of providers, most councils spend a big share of their budgets on delivering care to susceptible residents, like outdated age-related care, homelessness, incapacity assist and looked-after kids.
About 75% of Shropshire Council’s price range is spent on grownup and youngsters’s social care, leaving 25% to spend on all the pieces else.
In Telford and Wrekin, by comparability, a barely decrease proportion of 70p in each pound the council spends is allotted to social care.
Town and parish councils spend their chunk of council tax on lower-level providers, like bus stops, managing parks, litter choosing and neighborhood centres. Some have taken on higher tasks for issues like festivals, leisure centres and libraries as the most important authorities really feel the pinch.
Shropshire Council is within the cost-cutting technique of devolving services to town and parish councils, which haven’t any cap on their annual price will increase.
