Cash-strapped council plans to scale down services

Slough Borough Council said it faced a £31.9m shortfall in funding by 2028

People living in Slough will have to "do more for themselves" as services are scaled back, new council plans have revealed.

A draft plan for a new operating model setting out how Slough Borough Council should work is set to be presented to councillors.

It paints a vision of a "smaller" council with a "more limited range of services".

The plan says rising costs mean the cash-strapped council is "running out of road" and it can "no longer afford to work the way it does".

It comes after the council was ordered by government-appointed commissioners to come up with a new operating model in the summer of 2023.

Councillors are set to discuss the update at a scrutiny committee meeting on Tuesday.

A draft of the plan - spelling out what services it is "going to continue to offer as a council", which will be offered by "partners" and which the authority is "going to stop" - is likely to be presented to council leaders in November.

Council leaders are expected to endorse this draft at a cabinet meeting before letting residents have their say in a public consultation.