working for a better surrey confident in our future
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Working for a better Surrey
Confident in our future
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Throughout your life • Most people don’t know what the county council
does for them, BUT- if you live or work in Surrey or- have children or care for someone or- travel by road or on foot or enjoy the countryside or go shopping or run a business........
• Then you’ll use our services
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From the beginningOur responsibility to you starts at birth
• We register 20,000 births a year atour register offices
• We conferred citizenship on 2,500new British citizens in the last year
• And for those starting out in marriedlife, we performed 3,800 civil marriages
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Ensuring a good start in life• Surrey’s 270,000 children and young
people deserve the best start in life• All three and four-year-olds are entitled
to 15 hours free early education a week• 32,000 pre-school childcare places
for under-fives• 208,000 under-16s have access to before-
school, after-school and holiday childcare places
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Extra support when needed• We work in partnership to support
4,000 families with multiple needs – 7,000 by 2018
• 58 children’s centres provide services for families with children under five,including:• Ante natal and post natal support with midwives and
health visitors• Parenting advice and support, information on
education, employment and training
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Keeping children safe• County councillors act as
“corporate parents” to more than 800 children in care (about 630 foster placements)
• Nearly 900 children are carefully monitored on protection plans
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Investing in our schools • We have 389 state maintained schools
with 115,000 pupils
• Surrey schools in top quarter of local authorities for GCSEs (64%gained five A*- C grades, incl mathsand English, in 2012)
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Learning throughout life
• More than 3.7m physical library visits and 4.2m virtual visits to online library last year
• Free internet access and events to promote reading and literacy skills
• Six smaller libraries run by community partners
• 19,000 enrolments on over 2,200 adult learning courses
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Other learning and development•We ensure over 27,000 16 and
17-year-olds are offered places in education or training, includingin schools, colleges or work-basedtraining
•265 apprenticeships created last year(target for 2013-14 is 500)
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Promoting good health• Council took over public health
responsibilities on 1 April 2013. Three key tasks:
• Preventing ill health by encouraginghealthy lifestyles
• Health screening – promoting health checks for diabetes, heart disease, cancer
• Collecting evidence about health of Surrey’s population
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Strengthening our economy
• £35m superfast broadband contract to parts of Surrey not served by commercial market (84,000 properties)
• £32m Walton Bridge to cut travel times for businesses and residents
• £76m scheme to replace 89,000orange streetlights, cutting 60,000 tonnes of carbon emissions
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Strengthening our economy
• Council spent £364m with 4,500 Surrey businesses in 2012
• Trading standards officers provideadvice to help Surrey businesses thrive
• They have recovered over £1.25m savings for victims of doorstep crime
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Out and about • Cars are popular in Surrey - our roads
carry twice as much traffic as thenational average, we are working oneasing congestion
• We maintain 3,000 miles of pavementsand footways
• We work with police to reduce anti-social driving
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Out and about
We all feel strongly about roads – neverenough money to do everything, BUT• steady improvements• 5-year £100m road programme• £20m savings invested in extra
repairs and winter maintenance• 98% of road defects fixed within 28 days• 10-year warranties on contractor work
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Alternatives to the car• £18m improvements for cyclists,
pedestrians and public transport in Guildford, Woking, Reigate and Redhill(Travel SMART)
• 29m passenger journeys a year onSurrey buses – 15m on bus servicesfunded by the council (41,000 passenger trips a day)
• Cycle training for more than 11,000 school children last year
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Caring for our environment
•Over 500,000 tonnes of waste a year collected from 15 CommunityRecycling Centres (CRCs) and Surreyhouseholds
•Over 90% is re-used, recycled or recovered, saving hundreds of thousands of pounds in landfill tax
•We maintain 3,500km footpaths, bridleways and byways (2,300 hectares of countryside)
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Community safety
• Firefighters carried out over 3,300home fire safety visits last year
• We supported outreach work in2,900 domestic abuse cases
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Supporting others
• The number of residents aged 85 is increasing by about 1,000 a year
• We help 17,000 people at any onetime to live independently
• Last year we supported over 28,000adults with social care services
• In addition we gave advice and guidance to over 30,000 vulnerable people and their families
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Supporting others • We give direct payments to 3,000
people and arrange personal budgetsfor more than 8,600 people so theycan make their own care choices
• Over the last year we've helped375 people with learning disabilitiesto find jobs
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Financial position
Surrey is a great place to live, but major challengesahead:• Increased need drives increased cost • Council is driving down unit costs & taking new
approaches but increasing need means costs will go up
• Cuts in central funding
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Financial position
• Funding comes from grants, council tax, fees and other income
• More than £700m goes to schools, nurseries and special educational needs
• £580m raised from council tax for adult care, children’s services, roads, waste disposal, libraries but grants area being cut.
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Increasing need for services• 20,000 new school places needed over next 10 years – equal to 33 new secondary Schools • Average primary school place costs£14,000 a year• Secondary is £24,000 a year
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Increasing need for services• Number of people aged 85+
will double in 20 years • 15,000 people over 65 have
dementia – 1 in 3. Increase to17,000 by 2020
• Average cost of residential and nursing care package - £24,532 per person a year
• Average cost of community support package £10,360 per person a year
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Financial outlook
If we do nothing, by 2018 we face a gap of over £200 million between the funding we receive and what we will need to spend to meet increasing need for services
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In conclusion
• Our services are not always visible but make a big difference to people’s lives
• Many challenges ahead• Ongoing dialogue about what the
council should do, and what we can help communities do themselves