I do understand the importance of properly funding councils and the potential consequences that underfunding can have on essential services, particularly to vulnerable groups. Ultimately, it can lead to a decline in the quality of life for residents but how do people go on paying for these increases to services? Surely, if we keep on asking residents to pay more, they will have to make cuts in their lives, no one has an endless piggy bank. It’s been recorded that we are seeing large numbers of people relying on food banks with the Trussell Trust distributing over 3 million emergency food parcels to people facing hardship. These are the same people that councils and other major services are asking to pay more.
The issue we have here is not with the councils (the figure I read of those councils likely to go bust was ridiculous) but with the government and the cuts it's made to councils and the half @rsed job it's made of running the country. Remember, gripes go upwards and we are starting with the council.
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Image of a spider diagram outlining where RCBC spends its funding. This breaks down as: for ever £1000 received, £49 is spend on highways and streetlighting, £174 is spent on schools and education, £56 is spent on public health, £84 is spent on neighbourhood services, £242 is spent on adult social care, £154 is spent on children's services, £155 is spent on housing benefit, £64 is spent on economic growth and regeneration, £22 is spent on other council services.