100 ways to save £100m

In order to balance the books over the next five years, Bristol City Council now needs to make cuts of just over £100m.

Here’s how they propose to do it: 

1. Reduce 3rd party payments (saving £4,436,000)

2. New ways of delivering parks and open spaces (saving £3,920,000)

3. Restructuring support teams (saving £2,975,000) 

4. Implementing a new model of care and support for adults (saving £2,682,000)

5. Review our property services (saving £2,500,000)

6. Restructure admin and business support teams (saving £2,264,000)

7. Recommission Community Support Services (saving £2,106,000)

8. Recover costs of setting up a Mayoral Combined Authority (aka Metro Mayor) (saving £2,000,000)

9. Reduced Education Services Grant (saving £1,820,000)

10. Reduce Supporting People services (saving £1,800,000)

11. Office Closures (saving £1,747,000)

12. Work force policy and conditions review (saving £1,723,000)

13. Reduce road maintenance budgets (saving £1,700,000)

14. Redesign council services in line with cash limits (saving £1,600,000)

15. Reduce the number of library buildings and redesign the service (saving £1,400,000)

16. Best value contracts (saving £1,300,000)

17. Review provision of day service to adults (saving £1,239,000)

18. Recommission Bristol Youth Links (saving £1,238,000)

19. Change the way reablement, rehabilitation and intermediate care services and provided in the city (saving £1,200,000)

20. Reviewing on-street parking charges (saving £1,077,000)

21. Change focus of Neighbourhood Partnerships (saving £1,062,000)

22. Local Crisis and Prevention Fund reduction (saving £1,050,000)

23. Reduction of subsidies for bus routes with low numbers of passengers (saving £900,000)

24. Increase council foster carers (saving £862,000)

25. Operations centre – Increase income (saving £840,000)

26. Single city-wide Information Advice and Guidance Service (saving £800,000)

27. Restructuring Education & Skills Commissioning and Early Intervention & Targeted Services team (saving £789,000)

28. Residents’ parking income (saving £696,000)

29. Restructuring Park and Green Spaces, Neighbourhood Enforcement and Neighbourhood Management teams (saving £661,000)

30. Restructuring civil protection team, sustainability city team, innovation team, international affairs team and corporate communications team (saving £622,000)

31. Recommissioning of housing-related support for households who are recently homeless (saving £500,000)

32. Reduce funding to Bristol Music Trust (saving £500,000)

33. Establish city centre business rate development team (saving £480,000)

34. New ways of providing public toilets (saving £440,000)

35. Removal of locally defined discounts (saving £420,000)

36. Reduce funding to Key Arts Providers (saving £380,000)

37. Property Restructure (saving £379,000)

38. In House Enforcement team collecting unpaid tax and debt (saving £347,000)

39. Reduce use of temporary/emergency accommodation (saving £300,000)

40. Gradually reduce funding to Destination Bristol (saving £289,000)

41. Reduce funding for Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) (saving £272,000)

42. Retendering Park & Ride Services (saving £260,000)

43. Centralise Citizen Service Points at 100 Temple Street and close all others (saving £238,000)

44. Improvement to legal case management system (saving £236,000)

45. Increase income from museum buildings (saving £236,000)

46. Restructure Transport team (saving £233,000)

47. Completion of Citizen Services redesign (saving £230,000)

48. More efficient Home to School travel (saving £225,000)

49. Agree the best future for the provision on Community Meals (saving £220,000)

50. Commission a Youth House Pathway (saving £220,000)

51. Review Redfield Lodge fees and review dementia service (saving £200,000)

52. Bristol Waste Company (BWC) Operational Efficiencies (saving £200,000, then spending £200,000)

53. Reduce staffing in museum service (saving £200,000)

54. Run our Housing Benefits service more efficiently (saving £200,000)

55. Reintroduce Sunday charging for parking on-street (saving £200,000)

56. Increase supporting living provision (saving £198,000)

57. Restructure the Care & Support (Adults) team (saving £196,000)

58. Reducing non-essential spend (saving £179,000)

59. Alternative funding for responding tenant’s complaints (saving £175,000)

60. Replacement of call automation software (saving £170,000)

61. Change the way we deliver night time services (saving £163,000)

62. Develop a partnership model to deliver learning difficulties employment or training (saving £162,000)

63. Housing Solutions restructure (saving £160,000) 

64. Centralised Events Management (saving £155,000)

65. Reduce investment in the two Household, Waste & Recycling (HWRC) sites (saving £150,000, then spending £150,000)

66. Registrar’s Office Improvements (saving £150,000)

67. Hengrove Leisure Centre refinancing (saving £125,000)

68. Changes to garden waste collections (saving £121,000)

69. Transport maintenance budget reduction (saving £110,000)

70. Remove subsidy for adult education at Stoke Lodge (saving £110,000)

71. BWC income generation (saving £104,000)

72. Reduce funding for employment support service (saving £100,000)

73. Parking charges for Oldbury Estate, Blaise Castle and Ashton Court (saving £100,000)

74. Reduction in wellbeing grant devolved to local Neighbourhood Partnerships (saving £100,000)

75. Reduce colour printing (saving £90,000)

76. Increased income for Bulky Waste (saving £82,000)

77. Recommission alcohol and other drugs misuse for adults (saving £81,000)

78. Electoral Service Restructure (saving £76,000)

79. Single Council-wide process for providing emergency accommodation (saving £76,000)

80. Increase income from the administration of Traffic Regulation Orders (saving £75,000)

81. Remove council subsidy from Jubilee Pool (saving £62,000)

82. Additional income from The Bottle Yard Studios (saving £50,000)

83. Consolidate apprenticeship service (saving £50,000)

84. Park & Ride Efficiencies (saving £50,000)

85. No longer send out reminders for voter registration (saving £43,000)

86. Cease financial support for Bristol Pound (saving £40,000)

87. Redesign how highways information and guidance is delivered (saving £40,000)

88. Coroner Service Improvements (saving £29,000)

89. Stop spending on seagull prevention (saving £29,000)

90. Remove the subsidy for salary costs for the Avon Forge and Downs Wildlife Programme (saving £25,000)

91. Development Management planning team redesign (saving £25,000)

92. Differential Pricing Policy for planning pre-application service (saving £25,000)

93. Reduce the provision of catering at civic meeting (saving £20,000)

94. Remove council contribution for Bristol in Bloom (saving £20,000)

95. Energy service restructure (saving £19,000)

96. Civil enforcement officer restructure in Parking (saving £17,000)

97. Culture restructure (saving £10,000)

98. Increase the amount of money we make from litter fines (saving £15,000)

99. Increase income from fee paying adult learning services (saving £10,000)

100. Increase income from Translation and Interpreting service (saving £9,000)

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