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What would you Cut in your Council?

Nergal
Nergal Posts: 13 Forumite
in Debate House Prices & the Economy
Taking it as a given that there will be cuts and cuts are being made,
what would you save/protect and what would you cut in your local authority?
If you are going to suggest something to save then please suggest a cut?
And don't worry about balancing the books they need not be of equal monetary value.

I will start with...

Cut Educational Psycologists
Save Classroom Assistants
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Comments

  • westv
    westv Posts: 6,610 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Without having detailed information as to what each role consists of I am unable to suggest any cuts.
  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    Stop paying the pensions.
  • jamespmg44
    jamespmg44 Posts: 130 Forumite
    Cut - equalities teams
    Save - road working departments to start fixing the f!!king potholes
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    Cut- Anyone earning over £50k PA
    Save - Care workers.
  • McKneff
    McKneff Posts: 38,857 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Sending out bloody Christmas Cards to all and sundry.
    make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
    and we will never, ever return.
  • spadoosh
    spadoosh Posts: 8,732 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    cut: papershifters, pcso's (dont think this is local), pct, flowers on roundabouts, streetlight ( again more national) parking attendants/contracted clampers
    keep: social care for elderly, disabled and young people
  • DansMum_2
    DansMum_2 Posts: 948 Forumite
    Cut our Chief Execs wage which is £242000 pa

    That would save the lollipop ladies/men/persons who are out
    MFW 2011 No. 161 £946.54/£2000 Target
    April 9/15 :p March 14/15 :( Feb NSD 15/14 :D
    April GC £121.00/£130 March GC £127.60/£150 :D
    I Love my Furbabies :smileyhea
  • drc
    drc Posts: 2,057 Forumite
    • The monthly magazine - waste of money, goes straight in the bin.
    • Printing documents in 384383023 languages - if you are in the UK, you really should be speaking English, how else do you expect to do practially anything if you don't speak the mother tongue of the country you have chosen as home?
    • Pensions to council workers - I have to fund my own pension through my own income. I shouldn't have to fund theirs too. Council tax should be spent on services, not paying other peoples pensions.
    • Cap pay and base any kind of bonuses on real improvements to services and the lives of people living in the borough.
    • Bureaucracy - too much paperwork, not enough practical commonsense.
  • HappyMJ
    HappyMJ Posts: 21,115 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Whoever in my council that created this document....
    We have developed a strategic document framework that details the relationship
    between the various strategic documents within the council.
    :footie:
    :p Regular savers earn 6% interest (HSBC, First Direct, M&S) :p Loans cost 2.9% per year (Nationwide) = FREE money. :p
  • wherediditallgothen
    wherediditallgothen Posts: 1,520 Forumite
    drc wrote: »
    • The monthly magazine - waste of money, goes straight in the bin.
    This if nothing else. Or if it's not going to be cut, they could at least print it on softer paper :D
    Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
    Bo Jackson
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