Social Value Ideas for Wiltshire Council

Adult social care marketing budget

Cabinet noted a £40,000 addition to the quarter one budget to provide a marketing budget for the Shared Lives service. This is a small but specific spend intended to support recruitment and take-up of…

“Secondly, 40,000 has been added to the quarter one budget figures to provide marketing budget for Shared Lives service.”

Adult social care overspend

The quarter one revenue monitoring showed a major forecast overspend in adult social care, driven by inflation, National Insurance and National Living Wage impacts, provider uplifts, and continuing pr…

“So the first of them is a continuation of the recruitment freeze. So recruitment decisions to recruit have to be taken at a higher level in this counc…”

Area E moves to Bishops Cannings

The committee agreed to transfer Area E, the planned development south of the canal/Cote Road, from Devizes to Bishops Cannings. Members treated this as a future-proofing measure aligned with physical…

“Speaker 5: Our current recommendation is that the area the areas marked as e, I think it's singular, actually, area marked as e in the map be transfer…”

Area D stays in Devizes

The committee debated whether the two small residential blocks labelled Area D should move from Devizes into Bishops Cannings. After hearing arguments about community identity, boundary simplicity, an…

“Speaker 5: So our our recommendation, as things stand, is to, relocate this the these properties to from the parish bottom to the town to the parish o…”

Funding Disparity vs. Southwest Average

Wiltshire Police is the lowest overall funded per capita in Southwest region at £249.58 per head of population, compared to Southwest average of approximately £270 per head and national average of £31…

“We're the third lowest funded police force in the country. If we were funded to the same level as the other four police forces in the southwest of Eng…”

2026-27 Precept Increase Proposal

Police and Crime Commissioner proposes £15 per band D property precept increase for 2026-27, expected to raise £4.1m from the precept increase alone, with total precept income increase of £4.4m when i…

“The precept proposal therefore is necessary that since it avoids worse outcomes, it protects core policing. It avoids the drawing down of already limi…”