P-04- 591 Fair Funding for Local Government

Petition Wording:

UNISON Neath Port Talbot Branch call for the Welsh Government to reconsider the proposed budget cuts of up to -4.5% to Local Government funding. Local Government budgets are at breaking point and any further cuts will have a devastating effect on local services which the most vulnerable of society rely upon. Cuts to local government services will put further pressure on an already over-loaded NHS. These cuts are short sighted and the funds that are being diverted from local government to the NHS will not have the desired effect. Local government social services has a positive effect on keeping people out of hospital and maintaining these services is imperative in order to ease pressures on the NHS.

Petition raised by: UNISON 

Date Petition first considered by Committee: 23 September 2014

Number of signatures: 180 electronic signatures and in excess of 800 signatures collected by an associated petition.