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Buckingham council to campaign for better funding
Buckinghamshire county council has announced that it plans to campaign for better funding over the coming months.
The authority’s plans are to be laid out at a council meeting next week, when it will reveal the full extent of the monetary burden that has recently been placed upon it.
This includes the government’s decision to increase the landfill tax, resulting in a 0.4 per cent hike in council tax, as well as the Westminster move to cut free bus rides to school for children from families on benefit from three miles to two.
The latter ruling is expected to cost taxpayers in the county at least an extra £140,000 a year.
Council leader David Shakespeare commented: "Over the summer we will…be campaigning hard to make sure that the government fully understands the current pressures on Buckinghamshire and, most importantly, the consequences for our clients and customers of changes to government funding mechanisms and lack of funding for ‘new burdens’ put upon us."
Buckinghamshire county council estimates it will have to find an extra £2.5 million this year as a result of the government’s new laws.
