openDemocracy, 3 months ago to UKpolitics

How the Tories drove Britain’s local services into bankruptcy.

Councils provide social care, schools and housing. And half of them are about to run out of money

Read the full piece here:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/council-cuts-austerity-tories-bankrupt-youth-services-sure-start-school-nurses/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=toriesbankrucy

#UKPolitics #UKPol #tories #Conservatives #LocalCouncils #Councils #LocalServices #socialcare #schools #housing

SubtleBlade, 5 months ago to politics

#British #politics is rotting from the bottom up: pity our crisis-hit #LocalCouncils

Starved of powers and funds and then belittled by ministers, the collapse of town hall #democracy is a scandal unfolding in real time

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/29/british-politics-local-councils-ministers-town-hall-democracy
#ToryPoliciesInAction #UnderfundingPublicServices

ChrisMayLA6, 10 months ago to random

For some years the growing gap between income & expenditure for #localcouncils has been a problem that occasionally surfaces but seems to have been kept as a 'local issue';

Now there's a likely shortfall (funding gap) of around £3bn in the next two years.

So we can expect more councils in extreme financial difficulties, more cuts to local services & more chaos caused by the decline adult & child care services Councils can no longer afford to run.

The #Tory wreckers have been hard at work!