Please provide the approved budgets for children’s social care services in 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 and the individual overspends on the above budgets in 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17.
Please see our response in the table below.
| Budget | Overspend / Underspend | |
| 2014 – 2015 | £58,620,000 | £3,079,000 – overspend |
| 2015 – 2016 | £67,458,000 | £13,888,000 – overspend |
| 2016 – 2017 | £76,326,000 | £228,000 – underspend |
| 2017 – 2018 | £77,813,000 | Not yet available |
More information can be obtained from the Council’s Budget Book on our public website.