At a meeting of West Dunbartonshire’s Community Participation Committee on Wednesday 22nd February, 2012; Councillors and community representatives received a presentation on the UK Government’s Welfare Reform Programme. Vincent Gardiner, Client & Support Manager, reported that although the Welfare Reform Bill is still going through Parliament a number of reforms have already been initiated. At [...]

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The Scottish government has made an active choice to starve Council services of vital funding for services. Although the Scottish government received a cut in their budget from the UK government, of 2.2%, they have chosen to pass more than doubled the UK cut to local government. The SNP cut to local authorities is -5.7%, [...]