Council Tax Guide 2024 to 2025 - Funding and spending in 2023/24

Published: 12 March 2024
Spending in 2023/24
Services Gross £m Income £m Net £m Cost per
Resident £
Children’s Services 878.9 781.5 97.4 126.6
Adult Care and Community Wellbeing 363.7 185.9 177.8 231.0
Place 183.0 39.7 143.3 186.2
Capital Projects Charges 43.4 0.3 43.1 56.0
Other Services 178.7 28.3 150.4 195.5
Total planned spending 1,647.6 1,035.7 612.0 795.2
Contributions to/-from reserves -7.5 0.0 -7.5 N/A
Budget requirement 1,640.1 1,035.7 604.4 795.2
Funding in 2023/24
Budget resourced by Net £m
Business Rates Local Retention 152.7
Revenue Support Grant 26.4
Other Grants 86.8
County Precept 388.3
Total Funding 654.1

The Secretary of State made an offer to adult social care authorities. (“Adult social care authorities” are local authorities which have functions under Part 1 of the Care Act 2014, namely county councils in England, district councils for an area in England for which there is no county council, London borough councils, the Common Council of the City of London and the Council of the Isles of Scilly.)

The offer was the option of an adult social care authority being able to charge an additional “precept” on its council tax without holding a referendum, to assist the authority in meeting its expenditure on adult social care from the financial year 2016-17. It was originally made in respect of the financial years up to and including 2019-20. If the Secretary of State chooses to renew this offer in respect of a particular financial year, this is subject to the approval of the House of Commons.

The offer has been extended to cover the financial years 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25.