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Dorset Council reveals it is facing budget deficit of more than £8 MILLION due to covid
Dorset Council must foot the bill for mounting costs as a result of the pandemic COVID costs are continuing to mount for Dorset Council with additional financial support for some services expected to be required well into next year. In addition to suffering lost income from items such as car parking and leisure centres the authority is also now having to pick up some of the bills previously met by Government grants. One of these is payments to help patients leaving hospital which has been reduced from six weeks to four and may disappear altogether by the autumn.
BCP AND Dorset Councils have collaborated with the newly appointed head of safeguarding across both council areas to highlight the importance of the role. Following Safeguarding Week, which ran from June 21 to June 25, both local authorities are working with Siân Walker, Joint Independent Chair of the Dorset Safeguarding Adults Board and the Bournemouth Christchurch & Poole Safeguarding Adult Boards, to promote measures to protect the health, wellbeing and human rights. Siân Walker said: “Safeguarding adults with care and support needs is fundamental to everything we do – it is everyone’s business. “It is the most important role we have both in the public and the voluntary sector and having the opportunity to lead and oversee continuously improving practice in the two local authorities is a great opportunity.