Shropshire Council expected to announce plans to save £50m from budget
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Shropshire Council is expected to make an announcement on its plans to close a budget gap today after warning it faced "very difficult decisions".
The authority is looking to make savings of more than £50m, in addition to increasing council tax by 4.99%.
The council said it faced "unprecedented financial pressure" due to demand for its services including social care and housing.
It comes amid an increase in costs and a decrease in government funding.
More than 1,000 responses were collected in response to its budget proposals during a six-week budget consultation.
Adults' and children's social care accounted for almost 80% of its budget, it said, and the number of children in its care had doubled since 2018.
High rates of inflation over a long period had made services more expensive than ever to run, the authority had added, especially in such a "large, rural and sparsely populated area" like Shropshire.
Feedback from the council's six-week budget consultation is set to go before the authority's cabinet on 21 February.
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