HAVE YOUR SAY (BY MAY) ON LOCAL SERVICES

As part of Hampshire County Council's (HCC) ongoing push to correct their budget deficit, there is further consultation on possible cost cuts to local services this Spring. To protect the local services you value, please use the links below to comment. Deadline to do this is MAY 7th.

The Future Services Consultation – Spring 2025 runs until 7th May 2025, and signals the next stage in the County Council’s plans to ensure it can focus support to the most vulnerable people in Hampshire while meeting its legal duty to deliver a balanced budget.

A number of further savings options are now being proposed and HCC are inviting residents to provide their views on these proposed service changes, their potential impacts, as well as whether there are any other ways in which the savings might be made. Covering various local services, the consultation sets out four detailed options to help lower costs in future – by doing things differently and moving towards providing only those services that the County Council is legally required to deliver.

The four options within the consultation cover:

• Planned highways maintenance
• Older Adults Day Services
• Post-16 Transport only
• Both School Transport and Post-16 Transport:

How to have your say

Feedback can be provided online via the consultation webpage: www.hants.gov.uk/future-services-consultation

Copies of the information packs and the consultation Response Form, along with Easy Read versions of these documents, are also available to view, download and print on the consultation webpage. The documents can be listened to via screen reader and ‘Read Aloud’ technology.

If copies of the Information Pack or the Response Form are needed in another language or format (such as audio, large print, or Braille), or if you have any queries about the consultation, please contact: [email protected].

Responses can also be emailed directly to Hampshire County Council using the email address: [email protected] or sent in writing to Freepost HAMPSHIRE. (Please also write PandO, IEU, FM09 on the back of the envelope).

Where possible, people are encouraged to consider completing the consultation Response Form online as this will help save money, both in postage and in staff time in manually entering responses to the consultation. Internet access is available through local Hampshire County Council libraries.

Final decisions on the proposals will be made by the County Council’s Cabinet as part of their decision meetings during summer 2025.