Nicola Smith
A stark illustration of the way in which cuts are inevitably hitting the worst off from Tyneside, where meal subsidies and luncheon clubs in the borough are facing significant funding reductions.
Cuts Watch: Regions — Page 2
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Nicola Smith
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Nicola Smith
In recent days there have been several local reports of cuts in police services.
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Nicola Smith
New bus services to the new Media City development in Salford will now not proceed, as a result of Government funding cuts.
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Nicola Smith
In June, £49.9 million was cut from the Working Neighbourhoods Fund, an area based grant paid to local authorities by the Department for Communities (CLG). The funding is intended to support attempts to tackle concentrations of worklessness in deprived areas. The cut was accompanied by a removal of the ring-fence around the grant – and it appears that this has been used by several local authorities as an opportunity to cut even more money from this important initiative.
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Nicola Smith
Free fruit for children in Glasgow’s primary schools is reportedly at risk of being cut.
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Nicola Smith
Evidence is growing on the impacts of local area grant cuts for local services. For example, in Westminster two early years centres are facing cuts of around £90,000 each and in Birmingham 36 frontline workers from the children’s services department are facing redundancy.
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Nicola Smith
Today the National Housing Federation has published research on the impacts that a 40 per cent cut to the Supporting People programme could have. The programme aims to “provide housing related support to vulnerable people to enable them to live more independently”.
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Nicola Smith
We’ve been reviewing the cuts of the last few months, and have found a few that we should have featured that have not appeared on Cuts Watch. These include a 15 per cent budget cut at the Equalities and Human Rights Commission.
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Cuts Watch #200: More CLG cuts including support for young people and services to reduce overcrowding
Nicola Smith
The Department for Communities has published a list of new cuts on its website. The list was uploaded to their site yesterday but does not yet appear to have been press released. Cuts include: the Inspiring Communities pilot, which provided grant funding to neighbourhood partnerships seeking to raise the aspirations and educational attainment of local young people; the Overcrowding Pathfinders Pilots, which allowed local authority pathfinders to explore ways to tackle overcrowding and under-occupation and a cut of £1.3 million to a budget titled ‘supporting social tenants into work’.
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Nicola Smith
Cuts to regional Business Link services are starting to impact on jobs. 125 staff in Yorkshire are reportedly facing redundancy, as are 47 in the West Midlands. Many positions in Durham are also at risk.
