Threats to cut qualified teachers in nurseries were shelved but community policing will lose £522,000 of funding, economic development services will be cut by £1.2m and council tax will rise by 3 per cent while rents will go up by 2 per cent to pay for £874m of investment over the next five years.

The local authority will spend £66.7m on new or refurbished schools next year and £59.3m on early years services.

And £30m will be used to fix potholes and resurface the Capital’s crumbling roads, with £11m to upgrade street lights and £5m on improving active travel. The council will also put £250,000 towards supported bus services in rural west Edinburgh.

An artist's impresions of how the trams will look going down Leith. The Tories put forward alternative budget proposals involving no tram extension.

But the £14m of cuts to the Edinburgh Integration Joint Board (IJB) along with £33m to core services has led to the authority making “difficult choices” in the 2019-20 budget.

As the Evening News revealed, the axe will fall on around 200 full time equivalent jobs.

Union leaders blasted councillors for a lack of responsibility for cuts to health and social care and said the public wasn’t given enough information before consultations.

Gerry Stovin, from the Unison’s Edinburgh branch, said: “We seem to have pushed out health and social care staff on to a fringe like it’s not our problem anymore. There’s going to be serious cuts to health and social care.”

Unison said that council services were being treated like a “giant game of Jenga” and “being cut to the bone”.

Health and social care services will have more money than it received this year but will have to make £14m of savings from the council and up to £10m from the NHS to meet increased spending plans – while £2.5m of the council’s funding will only be handed over if services make improvements. Council leader, Cllr Adam McVey, said: “As a council, we are working hard to ensure all residents can share in Edinburgh’s success.

“This budget lives up to that commitment.

“It is a strong budget for the city and for our residents, particularly those most in need of our support.

“It is a budget that allows us to invest in key front-line services but also one that allows us to continue investing in the huge ambition we have for our capital city – ensuring our economy and public services are more inclusive so everyone can enjoy the benefits of sustainable and well-managed growth.“

The council has reduced a proposed £567,000 cut to Marketing Edinburgh to £300,000 on the promise that a business plan will be brought forward for the organisation to be self-sufficient in future years.

Gordon Robertson, chairman of Marketing Edinburgh, said: “We will now move forward to focus on the next step in the evolution of Marketing Edinburgh to become a destination marketing management organisation.

“That said, £300,000 is a significant cut and will need to be managed carefully. Our focus now will be to co-produce an appropriate business model which continues to deliver our services to the City of Edinburgh and our members within the revised budget.”

Opposition parties tabled their own proposals, with the Tories calling for the planned tram extension to be scrapped, claiming it would free up £90m of extra public funding, including a £20m dividend from Lothian Buses, despite no guarantee the cash can be used for other purposes. The Tories said the administration was choosing to press ahead with the extension in the current difficult financial climate, but called for “schools, not trams” and also proposed that council tax rise is capped at two per cent.

The Conservative finance spokesperson, Cllr Graham Hutchison, said: “The Conservative budget offers £90m of additional investment in the capital programme.

“Rejecting the tram extension at this time unlocks the funding to build three new high schools.”

But the finance convener, Cllr Alasdair Rankin, labelled the proposals to scrap the tram as “so short-sighted, it’s unbelievable”.

Edinburgh Council budget: Claims services are being treated like ‘giant game of Jenga’