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The human cost of council cuts
DAVE PRENTIS looks beneath the statistics to expose the real damage council cuts cause
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NOT a day goes by when we don’t hear a story about a council service on the brink of collapse. From the outsourcing disaster at Northamptonshire County Council to the recent damning report on the state of children’s social care by the Care Crisis Review, there is growing concern that the future of councils is at risk.
Yet all too often the human cost of cuts, and the price that individuals in communities across the country are paying, are hidden beneath the statistics.
At the beginning of our conference week, Unison published the results of a survey of over 21,000 people working in local councils across Britain. It highlighted in very stark terms indeed the human cost of these cuts on us all, and on our local communities.
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