The Council’s Services – A Snapshot
The following shows a snapshot of the Council's Services budget for the 2024 to 2025 period.
Children’s services
Thirty-five million pounds (£35m) will be spent on supporting looked after children, care leavers and vulnerable children. Including early intervention, families in need and support.
Housing and Social Investment
Eleven million nine hundred thousand pounds (£11.9m) will support over 2,100 households in temporary accommodation and £5.5m will fund Supporting People services (for example, supported housing to help people remain in their own homes).
Schools
Eighty-three million two hundred thousand pounds (£83.2m) will go directly to 30 schools for the education of approximately 13,000 pupils.
Public Health
Twenty-three million three hundred thousand pounds (£23.3m) will be used to fund a range of statutory services. These include: NHS Health Checks, sexual health services and health visitors, and a range of non-statutory services, such as behaviour change and childhood obesity, air quality and youth violence. All are aimed at reducing the health inequalities gap in the borough.
Communities and Chief Executive
Nine million eight hundred thousand pounds (£9.8m) will be spent on registrars, community engagement, community safety, economic development and supporting the voluntary and community sector.
Environment and Neighbourhoods
Eighty-four million seven hundred thousand pounds (£84.7m) will be spent on 2 leisure centres, 2 museums, collection of waste from over 97,000 households and borough roads, parks, and footpaths.
Grenfell
Five million seven hundred thousand pounds (£5.7m) will be supporting the Grenfell Recovery.
Adult Social Care
Seventy six million two hundred thousand pounds (£76.2m) will be spent on providing social care services to approximately 1,574 people in Kensington and Chelsea.
Other
Three million seven hundred thousand pounds (£3.7m) will provide on-going support for residents with cost-of-living pressures. Of this there is an estimated £1.7m to pay an additional payment of £100 to low-income households who are in receipt of certain benefits.