Archive for the ‘Spending cutbacks’ Category

by Paul Roberts www.caringforyourbusiness.co.uk ARE you punch drunk from the Coalition Government’s seemingly endless announcements of ‘radical reform’ to the NHS, social care, the welfare system and Uncle Tom Cobley and all? A staggering series of proposals for change that will have a fundamental impact on every one of us has been revealed in White [...]

by Paul Roberts www.caringforyourbusiness.co.uk The ‘postcode lottery’ of care in the UK is likely to get worse in the next few years, a report published on the eve of the Spending Review has warned. As social care budgets come under ever-increasing pressure, there is growing evidence of a widening gap between the performance of local [...]

THE £2 billion ‘boost’ for adult care may not be enough to prevent up to 50,000 local authority care workers losing their jobs, the Government has been warned. There are growing fears that the money – unveiled in the Spending Review – is likely to be swallowed up by demands placed on local authorities to [...]

By Paul Roberts www.caringforyourbusiness.co.uk We all face unprecedented cutbacks in the next four years as the axe falls on public spending. Scotland’s budget alone is expected to shrink by almost £4 billion in the next four years. Economists have warned that it could take 15 years for the Scottish budget to recover to 2010 levels. [...]

by Paul Roberts www.caringforyourbusiness.co.uk The cuts have begun and already there is talk of a ‘winter of discontent’ with strike action and protests sweeping the UK. Local authorities are slashing budgets and the axe is about to fall on tens of thousands of public service jobs. There are fears that as many as 50,000 public [...]