 | We do. Warwickshire has a very long track record of requiring services to produce improvements in cost effectiveness. Savings have been a feature of the budget since the late 1980s. For a number of years the target was set at 2½% but in recent years we review this each time the annual budget is set . The only service that is exempt from this process is schools. Under the national scheme of delegating budgets to schools the Council is prohibited from reducing schools budgets.
In setting the 2012/2013 budget all non school services have been required to make savings over the next three years. Our current savings plan will generate £19.4 million in 2012/2013.
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