A Council Tax freeze together with a number of other proposals designed to help address the cost of living crisis and help the county borough recover have been approved.
A meeting of Neath Port Talbot Council on Tuesday, (March 1st, 2022) agreed the draft budget and corporate plan and a £2m Hardship Relief Scheme to combat the cost of living crisis.
AGREED:
. A freeze in council tax so it remains at 2021-22 levels
. An extra £6.364m for social care, taking the budget to more than £95.5m
. An increase of £4.2m for education of our children and young people, taking the budget to more than £125m
. £1.8m extra for Environment, taking overall spending to £43.8m
. A £5m increase to the capital programme to begin making improvements across neighbourhoods
. £2.8m for one off investments to support these priorities and Covid recovery, including:
. £700k to give children and young people the best start in life – this includes a significant expansion of youth services to directly respond to what children and young people said was important to them in the ‘Let’s Talk’ conversation
. £1.5m to deliver a county borough wide range of projects to ‘catch up, clean up and green up’ our communities; and
. £200k to develop strategies in relation to culture and environment, and leisure and tourism and additional support for jobs and skills.
. The development of a £2m Hardship Relief Scheme to help those hardest hit by the cost of living crisis. (To be approved on full development of the scheme).
. £140m+ Capital Spending Strategy.
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