How we've saved money this financial year

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Savings found in Corporate Services
Savings found in Neighbourhoods and City Development
Savings found in Health and Social Care
Savings found in Children and Young People's Services

We've saved £56 million over the last two years, here's some of bigger things council services have been doing in order to deliver greater value for money, save money and adjust to a lower budget arising from the Government's deficit reduction programme. These savings were achieved in the financial year 2012-13.

Savings found in Corporate Services

Corporate Services - savings

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	Saving achieved
Integrated Customer Services Savings have been made by: internal reorganisation so that less money is spent on managers and more on the front line; putting benefits forms on line so we need fewer staff to manage paper forms; merging customer service points with libraries to cut down on building and staff costs; working on new processes for benefits claims so that we deal with customers more quickly and spend less time and money on processing.	£777,000
Facilities Management Further service redesign including fleet and management of mail and conference facilities.	£600,000
Finance We are modernising and streamlining the way we deliver the Finance function, to include having a new financial system and introducing more manager self-service, which will allow us to operate with less finance staff.	£591,000
Shared Transactional Services Savings are being made by realising full benefits from earlier stages of STS phase 1 improvements, and by making processes more efficient in accounts payable.	£555,000
Communications & Marketing, Arts, Festivals and Events Savings achieved by making Our City available only online, reducing and restructuring the internal teams, substantially reducing cross-Council expenditure on design and print.	£688,000
Legal Services Comprehensive Legal review with staff savings, increased income and a reduction in spend on external legal support. Efficiencies through smarter working arrangements and staff savings in Elections and Democratic Support. Increase in income to the Register Office and Coroner & Mortuary, and staff savings in Coroner & Mortuary.	£731,000
ICT Completion of the ICT structural change programme which has reduced the size of the ICT service, rationalised the IT estate, and reduced the costs of purchasing and running our hardware and software through better contract renegotiation.	£515,000
Revenue Income Project We are making more of our assets and increasing income to the Council.	£495,000
Senior Management Restructuring Restructuring of the senior management team with deletion of three posts.	£400,000
Reviewing Employee Terms & Conditions Savings have been made by streamlining and discontinuing non contractual allowances and introducing a holiday purchase salary sacrifice scheme.	£500,000

Savings found in Neighbourhoods and City Development

Neighbourhoods & City Development - savings

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Brief description of saving	Saving achieved
Waste Collection contract procurement savings	£1,900,000
Supporting people	£1,140,000
On street parking - extending coverage of bus lane enforcement and conversion of limited waiting bays to pay and display spaces. Increased income from new schemes	£500,000
Transport: rationalise non-statutory public transport contracts & negotiate improved deals	£400,000
Review of parking strategy, introduction of new charges using new technology	£300,000
Street Lighting Energy savings through improvements and investment	£285,000
Parking charges: introduce £1 charge per visit at Ashton Court	£210,000
Bridges and Structures maintenance funding transfer to capital funding	£150,000

Savings found in Health and Social Care

Health & Social Care - savings made

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Brief description of saving	Saving achieved
To implement the 3-year plan for the delivery of residential care for older people	£1,400,000
Re-commissioning of Supporting People services	£2,400,000
Ensure use-age of standardised commissioning processes across Health and Social Care commissioning activity and working with care providers to review high cost packages.	£700,000
Creating alternatives to residential care by expanding community supported living.	£300,000
Streamlining of business support functions.	£100,000

Savings found in Children and Young People's Services

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Brief description of saving	Saving achieved
Reduced costs in Early Years through re-configuring the central team, improved targeting and integration of learning & development, changes in provision and improved commissioning	£1,047,000
Bristol Youth Links – commissioning of integrated teams to deliver Youth Links services for 8-19 year olds through local providers.	£850,000
Reduced supplies expenditure - e.g. expenditure on general office, equipment, supplies, conferences/ hospitality and other non-essential expenditure.	£740,000
Effective use of Early Intervention grant funding to support children & families	£600,000
Improvement to the Adoption & Edge of Care services which mitigated cost pressures in the care placements budget	£350,000