'Knowing that people already at the depths of despair are going to be pushed further is extremely alarming for me.'
Over £20 million of cuts will be made to social care in Glasgow as part of plans to plug a £40m budget gap.
It will also ask city treasurer, Cllr Ricky Bell, SNP, to justify the council’s decision not to pass on Scottish Government funding for pay awards for social work staff, which officials reported could have prevented almost £8m of cuts. Her amendment asked members to agree it was “not possible” to set a balanced budget that “meets the needs of the IJB and its service users” and called for more funding to be provided by the Scottish Government.
It also covers a £900,000 cut to Care at Home and home care services, which would reduce the number of hours per week by 3,200, putting around 300 citizens on a waiting list. However, Simon Carr, who chairs the IJB, said there is “a big difference between a distress flare and us breaching our statutory duty”.
He said there had been “lots of letters over a very long period of time” and a “distress flare” needed to be sent “through practical action”.
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