CVSF Budget Scrutiny Process

Over the next few years the council is faced with a tough economic choice: protect front line services to the city’s most vulnerable people whilst having to find significant and far reaching savings. The magnitude of these savings is not yet fully known but it will be in the region of £50 million over the next three years.

There remains a large degree of uncertainty about the impact of the cuts on the community and voluntary sector. One thing is certain however, there will be real and significant cuts to budgets in 2012/13 and 2013/14. As a sector we cannot expect to rely on the same levels of funding and support from Brighton and Hove City Council.

Nevertheless CVSF and its representatives is exerting as much influence as possible during the budget scrutiny process to ensure that priority services delivered by the community and voluntary sector are protected. You can find out more about how we are going about this in CVSF's Budget Scrutiny Process document. Also included in this document is a timetable of CVSF reps steering groups and the council's themed scrutiny meetings.

 

The CVSF event Your Budget, Your Say: CVSF Consultation on the Council’s Budget Proposals for 2012/13 took place on Wednesday 11 January 2012. It was an opportunity for our membership to feed in their thoughts on the overall process and any additional concerns that they would like taken forward to the next roundtable event. Documents from the day are available below:

 

 

CVSF briefings from the budget scrutiny process so far can also be found below:


Please email Emma Daniel or call on 01273 810233 if you have any additional information you would like to share around the draft budget or process.

 

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