COSLA
@COSLA
The voice of Local Government in Scotland.
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http://www.cosla.gov.uk 28-04-2009 11:12:26
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Scottish Government 🏴 Scottish Government COSLA’s President, V/President & Political Group Leaders from all parties have written to the DFM & are seeking an urgent meeting. Council Leaders will not let this lie, they simply cannot afford to because it will have such a detrimental impact on the communities they represent.
Scottish Government 🏴 Scottish Government Forcing change from the centre denies local people and communities the opportunity to shape the services in a way that best meet their needs and it disempowers those across our workforce to not what they do but how they do it.
Scottish Government 🏴 Scottish Government A person-centred reform agenda based on prevention needs to be driven locally, where people are closest to and can take part in the decisions that affect them the most.
Scottish Government 🏴 Scottish Government This increase in internally allocated Scottish Government funding comes at a time when the growth of the Scottish Government workforce has regularly outstripped that of Local Government says COSLA .
Scottish Government 🏴 Scottish Government For example, internal budgets relating to “Response and Readiness” and “Corporate Running costs” have gone up by 42.5% and 12.2% respectively.
Scottish Government 🏴 Scottish Government The draft Budget also shows that Scottish Government’s internal costs have risen significantly from 23/24 to 24/25, equalling an increase of over £40 million in fiscal resource and capital.
Scottish Government 🏴 Scottish Government The impact of this move is to re-allocate capital funding away from preventative ‘upstream’ services carried out by Local Government to ‘downstream’ services carried out by our public sector partners, services that are more costly.
Scottish Government 🏴 Scottish Government @cosla says that the 2024/25 Scottish Government Budget shows a clear difference between the treatment of Local Government and other public bodies, with Local Government disproportionately impacted by cuts to capital funding.
Scottish Government 🏴 Scottish Government The Budget as it stands leaves not a single penny for transformational Public Service Reform- there is very limited scope for a focus on ‘Spend to Save’.
Scottish Government 🏴 @cosla said that the response from the Scottish Government to our Budget ask is extremely disappointing and will mean that the potential that councils have to prevent problems occurring will be limited severely.
Scottish Government 🏴 COSLA’s budget lobbying campaign set out the case for fair funding that would allow Local Government to deliver for the people of Scotland, particularly around delivering sustainable person-centred public services – one of the three shared priorities laid out in the VHA