{"id":17147,"date":"2019-02-01T12:28:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T12:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=17147"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:57:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:57:45","slug":"cuts-to-local-govt-funding-changing-nature-of-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=17147","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Govt must end this damage\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Local Government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Association\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (LGA) recent warning that there is a gaping \u00c2\u01418bn hole in council budgets has been endorsed by Unite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe cuts in local council funding are changing the nature of society,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 believes Unite national officer for local authorities Jim Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe are witnessing constant cuts to essential services which affect the most vulnerable in society such as the very young and the elderly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUp and down the country local communities are seeing the closure of libraries, swimming pools and parks amongst many other much needed amenities, as a direct result of councils being continuously forced into slashing budgets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThese cuts and closures are changing the fabric of local communities.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The largest cuts in council funding have been in Labour local authorities which have seen an average fall of \u00c2\u0141500 per head while for Conservative areas the decline is just \u00c2\u0141115, nearly four times lower.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For example between 2011\/12 and 2019\/20 the Labour controlled London borough of Hackney has seen its spending power reduced by \u00c2\u01411406.11 while Conservative controlled Wokingham council has during the same period seen its spending power actually increase by \u00c2\u014139.31.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy continued, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe closures and cuts in opening times of much needed facilities are resulting in people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lives becoming more difficult and more miserable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe government needs to take an urgent reality check and properly examine the effects that council cuts have had on society. It needs to stop the further planned cuts in funding and reverse the damage it has already done.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Local Government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Association\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (LGA) recent warning that there is a gaping \u00c2\u01418bn hole in council budgets has been endorsed by Unite. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe cuts in local council funding are changing the nature of society,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 believes Unite national officer for local authorities Jim Kennedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[981,104],"wps_subtitle":"Cuts to local govt funding \u00e2\u20ac\u0098changing nature of society\u00e2\u20ac\u2122","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25581,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17147\/revisions\/25581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}