Budget Survey 2025
Budget priorities
We know that people are facing pressures on their household finances.
Demand on our services for older people, people with disabilities and for vulnerable children is increasing. Government funding has not increased sufficiently to meet increasing demand and complexity of community needs whilst inflation, and the challenges in meeting the National Living Wage, mean our services are more expensive than ever to deliver. 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.
1. To what extent do you and your family access the following Nottinghamshire County Council services?
Related information - What each service includes
Care and support for vulnerable adults and older people (this includes services such as residential placements, day care, respite care, homecare, supported housing)
Services to keep children safe
(including fostering, adoption, safeguarding and child protection, residential care, short breaks)
Support for families
(including family hubs, youth services, early years and childcare services)
Protecting and improving health
(including helping to give children the best start, supporting people wanting to make healthy changes related to alcohol, drugs, tobacco, nutrition and exercise, mental wellbeing and suicide prevention, and giving particular attention to people living with the harmful impacts of homelessness and domestic violence)
Planning and infrastructure
(including planning and improvements, and highway maintenance)
Environmental services
(including waste and recycling, flooding & climate change)
Economic development and regeneration
(including employment and skills, broadband, tourism)
Recreational and cultural services
(including library services, arts, trails & country parks)
Services to and for schools
(including school admissions and mainstream or special educational needs and disabilities transport to school - responsibility for wider transport and local bus services and administering the English national concessionary transport scheme moves to the East Midlands Combined County Authority as of 1st April 2026)