The report, published by the council last week, states that the council has overspent £39.2m on children’s and adult’s social care over the last three years.
The council overspent £8.4m on children’s social care alone in 2019/20, the report states, and is projected to overspend £16.5m on children’s social care in 2020/21 based on projections from the first quarter of this year.
“The challenges of demand led services with both children's and adult social are impacts across the local government sector and the council is not unique in facing pressures on these budgets,” the report states.
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