Budget Survey 2025

Overview

• Essential care and support for vulnerable older people
• Help, protection, and care for children and young people
• Assistance for people with learning disabilities
• Support for people leaving of hospital
• Maintenance of roads and pavements
• Planning and commissioning school transport
• Flood prevention
• Trading Standards
• Libraries and cultural services
• Country parks and visitor attractions
• Wedding officiating and registration services
• School admissions and funding for new schools
• Inward investment and Broadband services
• Health initiatives and support for healthy lifestyle changes
• Family-based placements for children needing specialist care
• Investment in roads to boost the economy

How we spend our annual revenue budget

The Council spends 80% of its budget on schools, services for children and young people and adult social care. Only 1% is spent on running the Council.

The Council is committed to balancing its budget and addressing the pressures of rising costs and increasing demands for services. The Council has already delivered £130 million of savings since 2015/16 by changing the way we deliver some of our services. We are also working to reduce the pressures on our budget by focusing on approaches that provide the right help at the right time, preventing the need for more costly, statutory services.

Despite this, from 2026/27 onwards, the Council is projecting a budget shortfall of £18.3 million across the duration of our Medium-Term Financial Strategy, to 2028/29.

How the Council is funded

The Council’s total budget is £1,559.7 million. A third of the Council’s budget is funded by Council Tax (including Adult Social Care precept), with another 30% coming from government grants that are dedicated to delivering schools and education services.

Percentages are presented for illustrative purposes and therefore shown to their nearest whole number.

Our Council Plan

We recently published Our Council Plan 2025-2029, which is a new, ambitious plan for the County Council. It outlines the Council’s ambitions and priorities, delivering effective and efficient public services to the people of Nottinghamshire.

This is structured around three key outcomes: stronger families, thriving communities, and a connected county. 

A fourth area of focus is about a Council that leads and a Council that listens, which is why we want to hear your views on the Council’s budget.  

You can read the Council Plan and visit our website pages in the additional information links below.

Why your views matter

As we look to set our budget for 2026/27, we want you to tell us which services are important to you. This will help us to understand what we should prioritise and where there are the potential opportunities to make savings.

We want you to tell us what matters to you.

Have your say

The easiest way to complete this survey is to continue online.

1. If you need this survey in an alternative format please email policy@nottscc.gov.uk

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