IN ORDER to make savings, Dorset County Council has divided its plans with the help of three themes.

These are efficiency savings (the same service at a lower cost), transformational savings (doing things differently, changing strategy) and service reduction (closure of libraries and youth centres, etc).

The breakdown of opportunities for savings includes: * Thirteen areas from Children’s Services totalling £1,267,000 including reducing costs to the council’s Music Service, Outdoor Education Centres and Centre for Educational Technology, review funding to the Dorset Youth Offending Team, Advice and Guidance and Connexions, and closure of some youth services.

* Eleven areas from Adult and Community Services totalling £7,228,550 including reduction in Public Library Service books and materials and review of service in general, stopping contribution to Weymouth CCTV system, reduction in commitment to arts services and cuts to the social care programme affecting day centres.

* Fourteen areas from Environment totalling £7,007,000 including turning off street lights where appropriate, restructuring highways and transport and slashing the budget, cancelling the village halls budget, putting up prices at country parks, reducing hours at household recycling centres and withdrawing funding for the Destination Dorset tourism partnership.

* Nineteen areas from Corporate Resources totalling £1,183,000 including cutting back the need to store paper documents, cutting funding to the Colliton Club and sharing the coroner service with Bournemouth.

* Two areas from the chief executive’s office totalling £180,000 which are stopping the Dorset surveys and scaling back funding to the Dorset Strategic Partnership.

* Twenty-nine other areas identified totalling £13,173,000, including making money out of staff parking at County Hall, scrapping council publications including the Your Dorset newspaper, reducing overtime spending and mileage costs – both by 10 per cent, stopping salary increments, introduce a pay freeze, review of working time arrangements including sickness and leave.