Council plans £37m of cuts

Article published: Thursday, February 25th 2010

Manchester City Council is to make £37 million in cuts by 2013, according to the new Medium Term Financial Plan put before the Resources and Governance Overview and Scrutiny Committee. This figure includes £16.3 million in the next financial year alone.

The plans have been founded on the assumption that funds from central government to local authorities will be frozen.

The Council has meanwhile announced a series of measures it hopes will find savings while maintaining adequate provision of services. These include placing more foster children with parents to reduce spending on care homes and a scheme to aid sick and elderly adults in order to prevent the need for long-term care.

However the news that £345,000 will be found from ‘restructuring’ – cuts and redundancies to the rest of us – in staff at the Central Library, and a ‘robust’ approach to sickness absence in social services have provoked the ire of critics who believe that essential services and low-paid workers will be hit.

For more analysis of the announcement check the MEN website.

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1. What a stupid article! Again, the mule proves it can’t grasp the most simple of concepts! There’s a difference between cuts and savings you know. Over the past 3 years the council has managed to find £60m savings without cutting services. But maybe that’s a bit too complicated for you guys. Keep on trying to sell the socialist worker on Market st- it’ll keep you out of mischief

   Comment by Real world on February 27, 2010 at 12:33 am

2. What a bizarre comment! It’s basically the same as what David Ottewell said in the MEN anyway – it’s just reporting the facts. Almost sounds like it’s someone from the council talking…

   Comment by Bob on February 27, 2010 at 12:43 am

3. this is a ‘quickick’ – in other words, not a ‘news article’ which are actually original pieces of authored journalism. thats why we provided a link to the MEN! simple concepts we are incredibly fond of, especially in language: such as using the word ‘staff cuts’ instead of ‘restructuring’. and cuts can be made without savings as a corollary – in fact they can occur with a greater deficit being incurred – just look at the recent article on the closure of Urbis for example.

   Comment by M on February 27, 2010 at 8:57 pm

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