Social services departments are in the firing line as local authorities finalise their budgets for 1995-6 and four - Newcastle, Gloucester shire, Shropshire, and Devon - agree to break their capping limits.
Cuts expected in social services budgets still to be finalised, include:
East Sussex - £1 million;
North Yorkshire - £1.2 million;
Devon - £3.4 million;
Oxfordshire - £3.5 million;
Leeds - £5 million;
Nottinghamshire - £5.2 million; and
Derbyshire - £7.6 million.
Local authorities expecting drastic cuts but yet to decide how much comes off the social services, include:
Durham - £15 million
Sheffield - £20 million
Hampshire - £20 million
Essex - £27 million
Kent - £30 million, with
Lancashire - £57 million.
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