Councillors fear targets to improve failing children’s services in Nottingham may not be met amid more budget cuts. Nottingham City Council must fill a £32million black hole in its budget for 2023/24, and to do this it has proposed savings totalling £29m.
Cuts from past and present will impact the Labour-run authority’s children’s services, which were rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted last year. Already 15 children’s centre staff have accepted voluntary redundancy and have now left the council.
Nine children’s centres run by the authority will be cut to four. Youth and play services will now only be delivered through targeted services, with some vacant full time job roles cut.
