 | We do. Warwickshire has a very long track record of requiring services to produce improvements in cost effectiveness. Savings have been a feature of the budget since the late 1980s. For a number of years the target has been set at 2½%. The only service that is exempt from this process is schools. Under the national scheme of delegating budgets to schools the Council is prohibited from reducing schools budgets.
In setting the 2008/2009 budget all non school services, except fire, have been required to make efficiency savings ranging from 2% to 5 %. This has provided £6.2 million that will be used to meet spending priorities.
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