Here’s what we’ve faced in Croydon since a Section 114 was issued
It’s a similar story in Woking, which issued a Section 114 notice in June. There, local toilets, community centres and a swimming pool are earmarked for closure; there will be budget cuts for parks, the arts, and for community transport for elderly and disabled people.
And this is coming to your town too: Bradford, Devon, Guildford, Hastings, Kent, and Southampton are all said to be on the brink of issuing a Section 114 notice in the coming months.the local government union, Unison, found that since 2010 : councils in England had closed more than 859 children’s centres, 940 youth centres, 835 public conveniences and 738 libraries, as well as funding for 1,224 bus routes having been withdrawn.
Even councils’ statutory provision, like social care and children’s services, have not been untouched. The cuts to social care mean thatThis is not though a tale of neglect. Government has sat not idle while councils collapsed. It has actively set fire to them with massive spending cuts, and then turned off the alarm by abolishing the Audit Commission, the independent spending watchdog which oversaw local government accounts, in 2015.
Funding cuts are only one side of the equation. While the supply of funding has dried up, the demand has increased. Thanks to a decade of weak economic growth, failure to build adequate housing and benefit cuts, councils have greater poverty and homelessness to contend with in their communities, and an ageing society.
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