WARRINGTON North MP Helen Jones has accused Warrington Borough Council of “hidden cuts” which will impact on the most vulnerable people in the community.
She says that while the council may have given way on plans to cut the ranger service and recycling centres they still planned to cut services for the most vulnerable people including the elderly and people with learning disabilities.
Helen (pictured right) said:“While the council trumpets its decisions not to cut ranger services and recycling centres, which are welcome, it is carrying out an extraordinary attack on the most vulnerable people in our community. The most vulnerable face millions of pounds worth of cuts over the next few years.
“The council is cutting respite care for older people and people with learning disabilities, making life harder for them and their carers. It is also slashing the budget for the Dallam Centre which provides day care.”
Labour’s Prospective Parliamentary candidate for Warrington South Nick Bent (pictured left) added: “These are the kind of cuts people don’t realise are happening until they need the service. Why on earth is the council cutting services to the most vulnerable people in our area when it wants to employ more accountants and pay for street entertainment. They should get their priorities right.
“The Tory in charge of the town’s finances is, with the support of his LibDem friends, showing exactly what his party would do if they were ever to be elected to government – cutting services for those most in need. A Tory government is a change that most people in Warrington simply cannot afford!”
Warning over hidden council cuts
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Why on earth is their government sending our troops to die in a pointless war? Why don’t their government take the money from the bailed out banks’ bonus pools and give it to the councils so they wouldn’t have to cut such services? Why don’t their government cut overseas aid and help our own pensioners and vulnerable people if they are so under threat? Why does their government allow young yobs to terroise the streets and threaten the very old people they supposedly are so concerned about? WHY? Because she is trying to point score yet again. HER government have made a complete trash of this country in the past decade and now she is jumping ship with her pockets and bank accounts full of expenses cash…. if SHE were so concerned, she would stay and fight the seat herself. Give it a rest Helen, your moaning and pointscoring is putting young Nick Bent over a barrel!
Respite care!!! they may as well cut it for what its worth, the cost to carers wanting to take advantage of one weeks respite is four to six times the amount that these “vulnerable people” are provided with to live on for a week under by the carers. Resulting in most being unable to afford respite. Or feel that they have somehow let down their loved ones in a reduced standard of living for the remaining six weeks to recover financially.
why are we spending millions if not billions on letting people travel for nowt and putting people out of work surley it would be better to letpeople pay a small amount and help the country than keep cutting