If you're in poverty, are young, frail, ill or old Salford Council's £24.5million cuts are coming for you.
While we still only have headline figures with sketchy detail, the headings of the slashed budgets alone are enough to signal alarm bells for the city's most vulnerable people.
SLASH! £375,000 from the closure of a children's home; £1.08million from Helping Families service; £400,000 from Starting Life Well service; £1.4million from Early Intervention and Prevention service; £100,000 from Education Support for Looked After Children; £400,000 from shutting short term respite care at The Grange…
SLASH! £400,000 from Adult Care Support to people with learning difficulties; £476,000 from Care On Call; £781,000 from Supporting People; £676,000 from voluntary sector organisations supporting vulnerable adults; £200,000 from equipment provision for vulnerable adults; £214,000 from Mental Health Support…
SLASH! £700,000 from Youth Services; £233,000 from Welfare Rights and Debt Advice; £215,000 from Domestic Abuse service; £1million from Skills and Work; £100,000 from Connexions; £207,000 from MAPAS (Music and Performing Arts Service); £50,000 from Salford Children's Holiday Camp and £13,000 from Lledr Hall; £50,000 from Child Protection…
While most of the headings are in councilese, over the next few month the full impact on communities will become a lot clearer.
Other general cuts include…
SLASH! £100,000 from MediaCityUK Community Engagement Programme – signalling the end of any pretence to get Salford people jobs at the BBC etc; there's a £2million `payment restructure' for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (not a cut in the total amount); there's £40,000 from cutting the Tourist Information Centre at The Lowry and £200,000 from the Lowry; £30,000 from the Ceremonial Mayor's budget; £98,000 from marketing and communications; £54,000 off events; £144,000 from Democratic Services (Assistant Mayors etc), £465,000 from the Highways Maintenance budget and a whopping £796,000 from Administration Services. The equivalent of 300 jobs will also be axed and £634,000 from Salford Community Leisure budgets.
Altogether the cuts amount to £24.5million – mainly aimed at those who need help the most in society.
Indeed, Mayor Ian Stewart is always going on about `difficult choices' – Salford people need to be asking what the Council is actually spending its budgets on as well as what it is cutting. Is The Crescent Bridge still being built? Is The Landing at MediaCityUK still getting extortionate subsidies? Has the Chapel Street tart-up been cut? Are Peel Holdings projects still getting huge loans and grants?
If Salford Mayor Ian Stewart is cutting services for the vulnerable while continuing with prestige projects people need to know…
See also previous article on the £24.5million Cuts – click here
UPDATE: 8th January
Salford Council set to appoint a new £150,000 Fat Cat - click here
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