SUSTAINABLE STOCKPORTSustainable Stockport Agreement • July 23rd, 2019
The purpose of this Agreement is to set out the aims and objectives of this portfolio and the services for which it is responsible. It has to be said, however, that by 2020, local authorities will have faced cuts to core funding of nearly £16 billion over the preceding decade. At the time of writing this introduction, Stockport faces a further cut of £10m in 2020/21, with more to come. This diminishes our ability to provide the level of services we all want to see and makes it necessary to face up to the fact that it will not be business as usual in this coming year, any more than it has been over the last nine years. None of this gives me any pleasure to say, but it is important that we see this Agreement in the context of our reducing funding and that our desire to reach these aims and objectives will be hampered by our lack of resources.
