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Southwark propose £50m cuts over two years
Posted on 27. Jan, 2011 by Syd Soc.
Southwark has to make more than £50m of savings over two years after funding cuts made it London’s worst hit council in cash terms. Its cabinet is due to meet next week (25 Jan) to consider its budget savings proposals. Southwark estimates that around 400 council jobs will be lost in the next 18 months with more [...]
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Power to the people! The new Localism Bill – will it really empower local communities?
Posted on 13. Dec, 2010 by Syd Soc.
A landmark bill that claims to herald a ground-breaking shift in power to councils and communities overturning decades of central government control was unveiled by Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles today. Here is the coalition government’s press release in full: The Localism Bill will put an end to the hoarding of power within [...]
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Forest Hill School falls £1m into debt
Posted on 09. Dec, 2010 by Syd Soc.
Forest Hill School in Mayow Road reported a £615,000 loss last year and the school expects to lose a further £557,000 this year. This startling news was given to Lewisham Mayor and Cabinet at their meeting on the 1st December. The school was recently rebuilt under a PFI budget and the school had overestimated the income [...]
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Abandoned dogs – a growing problem in Lewisham
Posted on 17. Nov, 2010 by Syd Soc.
A report to Lewisham’s Mayor and Cabinet highlights the alarming growth in abandoned dogs in the borough and the escalating cost of rounding up these stray pooches and paying for them to be boarded in kennels. The Mayor and Cabinet meeting on 17 November will hear that the borough’s environmental team paid a bill of £100,000 [...]
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D-Day for Lewisham council cuts
Posted on 15. Nov, 2010 by Syd Soc.
Lewisham is facing cuts from its budget amounting to between £50-60m over the next three financial years. At the Mayor and Cabinet meeting on the 17 November the Mayor and Cabinet is expected to approve the first tranche of these cuts – £19.78m over three years plus a further £12.7m savings where consultation with staff [...]
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Lewisham Council cuts – 446 staff to go
Posted on 11. Nov, 2010 by Syd Soc.
Lewisham Council has written to Town Hall unions warning them that 446 staff jobs are to disappear in the next three years as cuts start to bite. Management jobs will be at the forefront of cut backs. The agenda of the Mayor and Cabinet meeting on November 17 carries a report which warns that 195 [...]
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