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Teachers, bin men and carers all to fall under budget axe
- By Dailyrecord.co.uk
- 28 Sep 2012 00:01
“Services for the disabled and elderly will be scaled back in ways that will really affect people’s lives.
UNION bosses have warned that front line services will be right in the firing line thanks to multi-million pound cuts.
EDUCATION, social work and cleansing services will all be hammered by the brutal £50million cuts at Scotland’s biggest council.
Public sector workers’ union Unison last night said it would be crazy to think the axe will not fall on the frontline.
Glasgow City Council have said they will have to make the cuts over the next two years. It will mean 1000 jobs going by 2015 on top of 3000 staff who have left since 2010.
Carers forced to give up work will get extra help
Services for the elderly and disabled are under “enormous strain”
Thursday 27 September 2012
Services for the elderly and disabled are under “enormous strain”, the Care Minister, Norman Lamb, acknowledged yesterday as he promised extra help for family members who give up work to look after relatives.
Mr Lamb’s pledge follows the disclosure in The Independent that the crisis in social care is costing the British economy more than £5bn a year in carers’ lost wages and tax contributions as well as benefit payments.
Crisis in social care costs Britain over £5bn a year
Crisis will get worse, charities warn
Wednesday 26 September 2012
Britain’s fragile economy is losing more than £5bn a year as a result of a growing crisis in social care funding aggravated by the Government’s austerity measures.
People are giving up an estimated £4bn in pay – cash that would have been channelled back into the economy – because they are being forced to leave work to care for elderly or disabled relatives. The Treasury is also missing out on £1bn of taxes they would otherwise have paid, while carers are claiming some £300m in benefits to help cover their living costs.
The “missing” £5.3bn is equivalent to more than 0.3 per cent of Britain’s gross domestic product, charities warned last night. More than 300,000 people quit work in 2010-11 to look after relatives – and the number is increasing because of continuing cuts to care budgets, they said.
The extent of the losses to the economy was disclosed in a report from Age UK and Carers UK, building on work by the London School of Economics. They said the problem would worsen unless ministers reversed cuts to town hall budgets that were affecting services, and finally acted to settle the long-term funding of social care.
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