We have updated our annual delivery plan, Everyone's Essex. This sets out the services and initiatives we will spend our more than £2 billion budget on over the next year.
Our aim is to protect essential services. We will also continue to invest in key areas, such as the county's infrastructure.
Everyone's Essex is our commitment to you, our residents and businesses, through five key priorities. These are:
Financial competence
Saving £800 million since 2012 has helped us protect frontline services and invest in roads and infrastructure. We promise to continue making savings for the future.
Caring
We have some of the best social care services in the country. We will continue investing in people and technology to help the most vulnerable live as independently as possible.
On your side
Many residents are struggling with high inflation and rising interest rates. We created a £50 million cost-of-living programme and will continue providing support.
Proud of Essex
We will work closely with local communities to celebrate our rich cultural and artistic heritage.
Trust
Whether it’s roads, country parks, libraries or schools, we will manage them well today and leave them in a better place tomorrow.
We have delivered a lot since we developed the original Everyone's Essex three years ago. We plan to do even more in the coming year.
Councillor Kevin Bentley, Leader of the Council, said: “We will never stop doing our best for the people of Essex, it’s what they deserve. We have shown this as an administration time and again by protecting essential services and through continued investment in areas such as our outstanding children’s services and our work to Level Up opportunities and reduce inequalities.
“I am immensely proud of the work the council has done over the last three years to make good on the promises we set out. I am hugely optimistic about what we can achieve over the next twelve months to go even further in the pursuit of these ambitions.”
Read more about our plans for the coming year.