25,165 local council job losses
25,165 job losses in pipeline at 52 councils in England, Wales and Scotland as Tory cuts in funding continues for a further year.
Cuts such as bin collections every three weeks or not cleaning gullies or savage cuts to services for the elderly and for children and decimating parks and leisure services are the results says GMB
GMB, the union for public services, in a round-up of job losses in the pipeline shows that there are a total of 25,165 job losses threatened at 52 councils in England, Wales and Scotland. The figures for each of the 52 councils are set out in the table below.
The round-up also shows the level of financial cuts in the pipeline at a further 35 councils. The figures for these 35 councils are set out in note to editors below.
3,000 Glasgow City Council
2,000 Edinburgh City Council
1,800 Cumbria Council
1,200 Birmingham City Council
1,000 Coventry City Council
1,000 Kirklees Council
1,000 North Lanarkshire Council
900 Fife council
700 Falkirk Council
700 Derbyshire County Council
640 Bradford Council
640 Swansea
600 South Tyneside Council
540 Brighton & Hove City Council
500 Leicestershire County Council
500 Rotherham Council
500 Lambeth
454 Hampshire County Council
450 Croydon Council
400 Durham Councty Council
400 Plymouth City Council
400 South Lanarkshire Council
400 Stockton Council
400 Wandsworth and Richmond Councils
400 Sheffield
367 Lancashire County Council
350 Walsall Council
343 Northamptonshire County Council
330 Gentoo (manager of Sunderland City Council’s housing stock)
306 Argyll and Bute
300 Blackpool Council
275 Dudley Council
250 East Sussex County Council
250 Newcastle City Council
200 Merthyr Tydfil Council
186 Salford Council
180 Nottinghamshire County Council
180 Southampton City Council
150 Stirling
150 Kent County Council
120 Warrington Borough Council
100 Portsmouth City Council
100 Worcestershire County Council
85 Wirral
84 Western Isles
59 Southend Council
51 Manchester City Council
50 Cambridgeshire County Council
46 Westminster
45 Carlisle City Council
45 Dundee City Council
39 Rochdale Borough Council
25,165 Total
Justin Bowden, GMB national officer, said ” However David Cameron tires to huff and puff that front line council services won’t be cut, the facts are inescapable: councils’ budgets are being chopped yet again, translating into mass redundancies and cuts to the services they offer the general public – like moving to bin collections every three weeks or ending the cleaning of gullies, savage cuts to services for the elderly and for children and decimating parks and leisure services.
It is already the case in most councils that regular home helps and hot meals on wheels are something from a bygone era.
So much for Cameron’s claim that front line services would not be cut.”
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Contact: Justin Bowden 07710 631351 or Gary Doolan 07852 182358 or Kamaljeet Jandu 07956 237178 or GMB press office 07974 251823 or 07921 289880
Notes to editors
Other cuts at councils that GMB is aware of:
Aberdeen Council £26m
Aberdeenshire £17m
Angus £25m
Bath and North East Somerset Council £40m over next 4 years
Bedford Borough Council £30m
Blaenau Gwent Council £4.81m
Bury Council £11.6m
Cardiff £30m
Cheshire West and Chester Council £35m
Dorset County Council £7.4m
Enfield Council £50m
Essex County Council £120m
Gateshead Council £50m
Gwynedd council £25m
Hartlepool Borough Council £4.1m
Highland Council £35m
Hull City Council £7m
Isle of Wight Council £26m over 2 years
Leeds £87m funding gap
Leicester City Council £45m
Liverpool council £27m
Neath Port Talbot £18m, £50m over next 4 years
Norfolk County Council £111m
Nottingham City Council £20m
Oxfordshire County Council £69m on top of £292m from 2010-2018
Stoke-on-Trent £27m
Sunderland City Council £110 by 2020
Telford & Wrekin Council £30m
Torbay £32.4 over next 3 years
Wakefield £30m
Warwickshire County Council £92m by 2018
West Berkshire £18.9m
West Dunbartonshire Council £7m
Wolverhampton City Council £46m by 2019
