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Renfrewshire Council Plan 2008 - 2012 Budget
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Did you know that Renfrewshire Council spends more than £400m every year on services for our residents?
How do we pay for these services? Most of our funding (about four-fifths) comes from a grant from the Scottish Government.
In December 2011, the Scottish Government announced the grant available to every council.
How do we pay for these services? Most of our funding (about four-fifths) comes from a grant from the Scottish Government.
In December 2011, the Scottish Government announced the grant available to every council.
Based on that funding, councillors approved Renfrewshire's budget for 2012-2013 at their meeting of 16 January.
Reduced funding from the government means smaller budgets for councils. Everyone in local government has to deal with this challenge for the foreseeable future.
Renfrewshire is at the forefront of meeting that challenge with our twin aims of prioritising frontline services and delivering the council's strategic priorities. The benefits of our approach will become even more evident over the next year as the latest stages of the council's £1/4billion investment in schools, community and sports facilities, and council housing are completed.
There will have to be changes to services and there are more difficult times ahead. But Renfrewshire is as well placed as any council to support the community we serve.
Find out more
This section of the website is designed to explore in more detail what our spending priorities are, how our services are paid for and how we're looking to improve the way services are delivered to get deliver more value-for-money.
Click on each of the links below to find out more:
- How are council services funded?
- What services do we spend on?
- The cost of services
- Investing in Renfrewshire's future
- What are we doing to make savings?
- Sharing services and working together
- Get involved
- Useful documents
For more information about the priorities of Renfrewshire Council and our community planning partners, you might like to read the documents available below:
Renfrewshire Community Plan 2008-2017Renfrewshire Council Plan 2008-2012Renfrewshire Single Outcome Agreement (SOA) 2009-2011(Warning! These documents may take some time to download due to the large file sizes. You need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these documents. Download Acrobat Reader here.)
For more information about the priorities of our individual service departments, read our service plans.
