Working for a better Surrey

Confident in our future

Throughout your life • Most people don’t know what the county council

does for them, BUT- if you live or work in Surrey or- have children or care for someone or- travel by road or on foot or enjoy the countryside or go shopping or run a business........

• Then you’ll use our services

From the beginningOur responsibility to you starts at birth

• We register 20,000 births a year atour register offices

• We conferred citizenship on 2,500new British citizens in the last year

• And for those starting out in marriedlife, we performed 3,800 civil marriages

Ensuring a good start in life• Surrey’s 270,000 children and young

people deserve the best start in life• All three and four-year-olds are entitled

to 15 hours free early education a week• 32,000 pre-school childcare places

for under-fives• 208,000 under-16s have access to before-

school, after-school and holiday childcare places

Extra support when needed• We work in partnership to support

4,000 families with multiple needs – 7,000 by 2018

• 58 children’s centres provide services for families with children under five,including:• Ante natal and post natal support with midwives and

health visitors• Parenting advice and support, information on

education, employment and training

Keeping children safe• County councillors act as

“corporate parents” to more than 800 children in care (about 630 foster placements)

• Nearly 900 children are carefully monitored on protection plans

Investing in our schools • We have 389 state maintained schools

with 115,000 pupils

• Surrey schools in top quarter of local authorities for GCSEs (64%gained five A*- C grades, incl mathsand English, in 2012)

Learning throughout life

• More than 3.7m physical library visits and 4.2m virtual visits to online library last year

• Free internet access and events to promote reading and literacy skills

• Six smaller libraries run by community partners

• 19,000 enrolments on over 2,200 adult learning courses

Other learning and development•We ensure over 27,000 16 and

17-year-olds are offered places in education or training, includingin schools, colleges or work-basedtraining

•265 apprenticeships created last year(target for 2013-14 is 500)

Promoting good health• Council took over public health

responsibilities on 1 April 2013. Three key tasks:

• Preventing ill health by encouraginghealthy lifestyles

• Health screening – promoting health checks for diabetes, heart disease, cancer

• Collecting evidence about health of Surrey’s population

Strengthening our economy

• £35m superfast broadband contract to parts of Surrey not served by commercial market (84,000 properties)

• £32m Walton Bridge to cut travel times for businesses and residents

• £76m scheme to replace 89,000orange streetlights, cutting 60,000 tonnes of carbon emissions

Strengthening our economy

• Council spent £364m with 4,500 Surrey businesses in 2012

• Trading standards officers provideadvice to help Surrey businesses thrive

• They have recovered over £1.25m savings for victims of doorstep crime

Out and about • Cars are popular in Surrey - our roads

carry twice as much traffic as thenational average, we are working oneasing congestion

• We maintain 3,000 miles of pavementsand footways

• We work with police to reduce anti-social driving

Out and about

We all feel strongly about roads – neverenough money to do everything, BUT• steady improvements• 5-year £100m road programme• £20m savings invested in extra

repairs and winter maintenance• 98% of road defects fixed within 28 days• 10-year warranties on contractor work

Alternatives to the car• £18m improvements for cyclists,

pedestrians and public transport in Guildford, Woking, Reigate and Redhill(Travel SMART)

• 29m passenger journeys a year onSurrey buses – 15m on bus servicesfunded by the council (41,000 passenger trips a day)

• Cycle training for more than 11,000 school children last year

Caring for our environment

•Over 500,000 tonnes of waste a year collected from 15 CommunityRecycling Centres (CRCs) and Surreyhouseholds

•Over 90% is re-used, recycled or recovered, saving hundreds of thousands of pounds in landfill tax

•We maintain 3,500km footpaths, bridleways and byways (2,300 hectares of countryside)

Community safety

• Firefighters carried out over 3,300home fire safety visits last year

• We supported outreach work in2,900 domestic abuse cases

Supporting others

• The number of residents aged 85 is increasing by about 1,000 a year

• We help 17,000 people at any onetime to live independently

• Last year we supported over 28,000adults with social care services

• In addition we gave advice and guidance to over 30,000 vulnerable people and their families

Supporting others • We give direct payments to 3,000

people and arrange personal budgetsfor more than 8,600 people so theycan make their own care choices

• Over the last year we've helped375 people with learning disabilitiesto find jobs

Financial position

Surrey is a great place to live, but major challengesahead:• Increased need drives increased cost • Council is driving down unit costs & taking new

approaches but increasing need means costs will go up

• Cuts in central funding

Financial position

• Funding comes from grants, council tax, fees and other income

• More than £700m goes to schools, nurseries and special educational needs

• £580m raised from council tax for adult care, children’s services, roads, waste disposal, libraries but grants area being cut.

Increasing need for services• 20,000 new school places needed over next 10 years – equal to 33 new secondary Schools • Average primary school place costs£14,000 a year• Secondary is £24,000 a year

Increasing need for services• Number of people aged 85+

will double in 20 years • 15,000 people over 65 have

dementia – 1 in 3. Increase to17,000 by 2020

• Average cost of residential and nursing care package - £24,532 per person a year

• Average cost of community support package £10,360 per person a year

Financial outlook

If we do nothing, by 2018 we face a gap of over £200 million between the funding we receive and what we will need to spend to meet increasing need for services

In conclusion

• Our services are not always visible but make a big difference to people’s lives

• Many challenges ahead• Ongoing dialogue about what the

council should do, and what we can help communities do themselves