Can someone explain how a shortfall of £2million in a total budget
cost of running the Your Choice Barnet services of approximately £5million to £6.5million is a
“solid” Business Case?
The Councillor responsible for Adult Social Services response to a question at the recent Barnet Council Cabinet meeting was interesting.
According to the councillor the Business Case was “solid” for setting up Your
Choice. Indeed having insisted the Business Case anticipated
these shortfalls, the councillor then went on to say that the draconian and
vicious cuts to workers’ terms and conditions.... Sorry he definitely
did not say that, he said the proposals will “deliver further
efficiencies”. “Further to what?” we wondered.
Just before that
motion we had listened to the Leader of the Council talk to the Welfare Reform
motion saying it was needed to ensure that it “pays to work”. With the
cuts proposed to Your Choice workers and the Housing 21 workers and Fremantle
workers before them, I’m starting to wonder if what is meant by the phrase is a
society where the ‘worker pays to work?’
Having spoken to many
Your Choice workers in the last few weeks, this is what one of them
said:
“Support workers at
Your Choice are being substantially de-skilled, by being given a new job
description to justify a third of their monthly wages being taken from them.
Service users at Your Choice are having a massive change in the hours that they
are being supported – meaning that they can enjoy less leisure and educational
opportunities. They are unaware of how severely their lives will be affected for
the worse by these cuts”.
This has been
repeated over and over that a cut to the workers ultimately means a cut to the
service user.
What you can do
Please sign this
petition
Of course, you may just think it's all very funny, our money being wasted like this !
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