• Adult and community services - Investment of £2,540,000: including £1,735,000 to meet increasing demands due to demographic pressures; and £805,000 to address a shortfall in mental health fees budget. Savings of £7,340,000: including £3,740,000 through contracts delivered by developing a dynamic purchasing system to deliver efficiencies in purchased services without reducing levels of provision; £700,000 by reviewing care packages to achieve greater efficiency and value for money while encouraging independence; £400,000 by securing appropriate levels of funding for people whose primary care needs are health related; and £350,000 by reviewing the contracts within the community funding unit and within health and wellbeing.
  • Children’s services - Savings of £3,879,000: including £500,000 through a reduction of supplies and services budgets in the youth service; £300,000 by the return of children with disabilities in residential placements outside Bradford to refurbished specialist provision in the district; £205,000 through staffing efficiencies within the intervention and challenge service; and £200,000 due to the reduced numbers of young people classed at not in education, employment and training (Neet).
  • Regeneration and culture - Investment of £6,149,000: including £4,100,000 to establish a regional revolving investment fund to support commercially viable regional projects; £700,000 to complete the current phase of the Local Development Framework; £250,000 to undertake additional events based around the City Park; £141,000 for the first of a three-year programme to support the Super Connected Cities and BDUK projects in delivering superfast broadband, enhanced Wi-fi connectivity and free city centre Wi-fi; and £118,000 to support the free city centre bus for one more year. Savings of £2,059,000: including £335,000 by reducing staffing levels in climate change, service improvement, adaptations, affordable housing and commissioning teams; £211,000 by reducing the corporate utility budget through efficiency improvements and behavioural change; £210,000 through a range of savings within building cleaning, a result of servicing fewer Council buildings, efficiencies and introducing the electronic document management system; £65,000 through the reduced cost of grit due to negotiating prices; £62,000 by reducing funding available for footpath maintenance; £44,000 by reducing library opening hours; £43,000 through reviewing the allotments service with focus on devolution of management to voluntary sector or allotment holders; £23,000 through the closure or transfer of ownership of Bracken Hall countryside centre; and £20,000 by stopping some Big Screen events after contract ends.
  • Environment and sport - Investment of £125,000: including £75,000 to meet the cost of an increase in the horse impounding operation; and £50,000 to introduce additional refuse collections to address property growth. Savings of £2,617,000: including £420,000 by moving the seven-day-a-week mechanical street cleansing operation to five days with some scope for weekend overtime; £215,000 by introducing a charge for the collection of bulky household waste; £190,000 by not providing a replacement household waste site for Bowling Back Lane and closing a further site at Sugden End; £165,000 through new contracts for paper, glass and cans resulting in additional revenue from recyclates; £160,000 through introducing a resident’s permit for household waste centres to prevent access by residents from neighbouring authorities; £150,000 by reducing the Area Action Plan funding; £115,000 by creating wildflower meadows and alternative management arrangements of parks and green spaces which cuts direct maintenance costs; £100,000 by reducing the number of ward officers by one in each neighbourhood areas; £80,000 by increased income and reduced costs at sports facilities by increasing average prices by one per cent above inflation; and £30,000 by reducing the subsidy for Bingley Music Live and reducing costs.
  • Business support - Savings of £170,000: including £96,000 through further staffing reductions in human resources; and £74,000 through staffing efficiencies in workforce development.
  • Chief executive’s office - Savings of £150,000: including £54,000 through a reduction in staffing across political offices; and £40,000 through the continued development of e-communications.
  • City solicitor and democratic services - Investment of £93,000: including £71,000 to employ an additional senior solicitor and legal officer to deal with the personalisation agenda within adult services; and £22,000 for the payment of special responsibility allowances to Police Authority members who will transfer to the Police and Crime Panel. Savings of £14,000: including £10,000 through the deletion of a vacant part-time elections post.
  • Finance, ICT and Revenues and Benefits - Investment of £1,530,000: including £1,200,000 investment to improve customer service delivery over the next two years; £132,000 addition resources in benefits to deal with welfare changes, and £110,000 to deal with welfare and council tax changes within customer services. Savings of £645,000: including £168,000 through reducing the size of the finance function and ultimately a cut of ten per cent of staff; £150,000 by reducing the size of the Council’s client function in respect of the ICT contract; £147,000 by closing Council payment offices while introducing facilities to allow residents to pay in local communities; and £100,000 by reducing the discretionary computer development spend.