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…”

Separate paper/card rejected

Wiltshire concluded that separate paper and card collections are not technically, environmentally or economically practical under the new simpler recycling requirements. The assessment found additiona…

“The report explains that the evidence now available demonstrates very significant barriers to introducing a separate paper and card collection system …”

Electric refuse truck retained

The council completed an 11-month trial of an electric refuse collection vehicle and decided to retain it for continued use in Salisbury. The vehicle works best on urban return-to-base routes, but the…

“The report concludes that electric refuse vehicles are currently better suited to dense urban areas than long rural collection rounds. Inadequate char…”