CS017 - Proposal to Share Children's Social Care Services With Bury and Oldham

Overview

Outline of Proposal

A proposal to achieve savings as a result of work with neighbouring authorities to share services with a target to deliver an indicative £230k reoccurring cashable savings in 2015/16 across children’s social care

General Impact

The proposal if achieved will integrate services across local authority boundaries in order to achieve savings, by reducing costs in delivering services, without reducing service provision.

Impact on Service Users

Sharing services across council boundaries can provide the opportunity to share resources, skills and expertise and gain the financial benefits that come through having economies of scale. It is not expected that service users would experience any detriment from such a change.

Savings Total: £150,000 on-going saving in 2015/16

The Council is assessing the potential equality impact which the proposals may have and are undertaking full Equality Impact Assessments (EIAs) where this is appropriate.The EIAs are draft working documents which are to be developed over time.

This means that as further detail becomes available through the consultation process the EIAs will be updated and finalised before a final decision is reached.

You can find the full proposal document, which includes the Equality Impact Assessment, below in the related documents section.