The increase in bills means the most important services can be protected, the authority says.
Council tax in Calderdale is set to increase by the maximum possible amount in the next financial year after councillors approved budget proposals.
Council leader Tim Swift said the hike was needed to invest in social care while protecting front-line services.Mr Swift said this was to help attract more foster carers to look after children, which in turn should reduce the number of high cost external placements currently needed.A meeting of the full council on Tuesday was told the authority faced a funding gap of £10.2m due to "intense demand pressures in social care and heightened levels of cost inflation".
He said this was against a backdrop of emerging from Covid, the cost of living crisis, high inflation, rising energy prices, the war in Ukraine, along with significant falls in revenue from sources such as car parking.
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