Posted on August 31st, 2010 by Nicola Smith
In June, £49.9 million was cut from the Working Neighbourhoods Fund, an area based grant paid to local authorities by the Department for Communities (CLG). The funding is intended to support attempts to tackle concentrations of worklessness in deprived areas. The cut was accompanied by a removal of the ring-fence around the grant – and [...]
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Posted on August 31st, 2010 by Nicola Smith
Free fruit for children in Glasgow’s primary schools is reportedly at risk of being cut.
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Posted on August 26th, 2010 by Nicola Smith
The Guardian are reporting that the UK’s main science bodies are facing cuts of around 25 per cent in funding, placing a number of high profile projects at risk.
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Posted on August 26th, 2010 by Nicola Smith
Arts organisations and festivals in Edinburgh are facing budget cuts of £2.5 million.
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Posted on August 26th, 2010 by Nicola Smith
Today’s FT features an opinion piece from Nick Clegg, where he sets out his refutation of the IFS’s analysis. The Government line seems to have changed from yesterday (when the Financial Secretary to the Treasury equated fairness with growth), as the Deputy Prime Minister is now arguing that fairness is about more than a ‘purely [...]
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Posted on August 25th, 2010 by Nicola Smith
The Deputy Prime Minister has joined his Treasury colleague in maintaining that the IFS analysis of the distributional impact of the Budget is selective and partial. This is simply wrong. The Budget documents clearly state that only ‘two-thirds‘ of the benefit and tax credit changes are modelled in their analysis of the Budget’s impacts. In [...]
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Posted on August 25th, 2010 by Nicola Smith
This morning’s Today interview with Financial Secretary Mark Hoban provided a revealing insight into the Government’s definition of fairness. In response to an IFS analysis (that is based on DWP figures of the impact of Housing Benefit cuts, and HMT’s figures for how social security changes – specifically indexing benefits with CPI – will affect [...]
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Posted on August 25th, 2010 by Nicola Smith
Today End Child Poverty reports on new research, commissioned from the IFS, that shows definitively what many others have highlighted – the cuts announced in the Budget will hit families and the poorest the hardest. As we showed immediately after the Budget, the Chancellor’s claim that the spending changes he announced were ‘progressive’ has always [...]
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Posted on August 23rd, 2010 by Nicola Smith
Increasing numbers of public sector suppliers are facing insolvency as a result of spending cuts.
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Posted on August 23rd, 2010 by Nicola Smith
100 police stations are reportedly facing closure as a result of spending cuts.
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Posted on August 23rd, 2010 by Nicola Smith
Community Care are reporting that the Youth Justice Board (YJB) is to be axed.
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Posted on August 23rd, 2010 by Nicola Smith
Lambeth council has announced that it is cutting free fireworks displays to save money.
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