Finance Information.

Brighter Futures manages its financial resources to provide cost effective, efficient, high quality services. Annual budgets prioritise resources towards the objectives set out in our 2010-15 Corporate Plan and we have consistently achieved our budgets for many years. We have started to work in 2010 on identifying procurement savings. The first of these have now been recognised in our budgets for 2011/12 and the savings have been reinvested in priority areas, such as a dedicated budget for customer consultation events which is new for 2011/12.

Over the coming months we will continue with our planned programme of procurement reviews and seek to identify additional savings to improve our value for money.

The following pie charts show a breakdown of budgeted income and expenditure for 2011/12. Further financial information is available from the Director of Finance and Contracting upon request.