The Leicester county council will be announcing their toughest budget cuts for years. Based on the following information where would you make the cuts?
Total Budget £688M of which £350M is finding for schooling leaving £338M to work with.
£59M is spent on children and young people. This pays for school improvement services, youth services and 300 children in care.
£51M is spent on Highways and transport maintaining 4000km of roads 3000km of paths 61000 street lights and subsidise 82 bus routes.
£29M on recycling and waste management handling 320000 tonnes of household waste per year.
£125M adult services such as social care supporting 12300 older people, also those with disabilities and mental health issues. Residential care, homecare, meals, equipment and adaptations, day service and supported living.
£11M on Libraries and Museums.
We decided to cut £5M from Highways : £7M from Recycling as should be making money: £5M from adult services through organisational change: £3M from Libraries.
This will save £20M per year but we have no idea how structure of each sector is set up. The top wage earners are CEO on £193K with a top tier wage bill of £3.9M.
My big question must be what was the unaccounted for £59M spent on? A rather large sum to go under the heading of Miscellaneous don't you think?
So over to you now what would you have done?
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Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Monday, 11 October 2010
Daily Mail Article On How Facebook And Twitter Drop Public Sector Employees Into Hot Water
Below is an article from the Daily Mail by Jason Lewis:
Government and council employees using Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites at work or posting inappropriate comments from home face being disciplined or even sacked.One police force censured eight employees last year after it caught them using police computers to chat to their friends online.A local authority disciplined a member of staff who used the websites to discuss what he was doing in his social life while he was supposed to be off sick.
And another council caught staff using special software to get around a ban on using office computers to tweet on Twitter and ‘update their status’ on Facebook during working hours.
Now, Government departments and quangos, including officials planning the 2012 Olympics, have issued written guidelines to staff detailing their restrictions on using the sites.They are also paying thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money to outside consultants for courses on the do’s and don’ts of how to behave on Facebook and similar sites.Last year The Mail on Sunday revealed how Sir John Sawers, the head of MI6, was left exposed by a personal security breach after his wife published intimate photos and family details on Facebook.This led to all Government staff who were undergoing developed vetting – required if they were to handle top-secret documents – being warned against posting personal details online which could leave them open to blackmail.Last month the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) distributed a guide to all employees stating: ‘Facebook, Linked-In, Twitter have become very popular ... and offer significant business benefits ... Their use poses risks both to the data on the ODA IT system ... and to the users of the sites and ODA.’A letter to staff says they are allowed to use social networking sites in lunch breaks but warns: ‘You must not publish content about London 2012.’Cheshire Constabulary is one of a number of police forces that impose a total ban on staff using social networking sites on work computers unless it is required for ‘policing purposes’. The force revealed that breaches of its guidelines have led to eight staff being disciplined over their online activities. Seven took place on police premises while another had been disciplined for their home internet usage, which ‘involved inappropriate and offensive comments’.Glasgow City Council bans staff from using Facebook and other similar sites for personal use. It disciplined two staff who attempted to get around these restrictions by using special software to circumnavigate the council’s internet filtering system.Meanwhile St Helens Borough Council, in Merseyside, revealed that ‘we have had one instance where an employee has been disciplined for excessive use of the internet, including posting material about their social life on a social networking site when they were off sick’.Rochdale Borough Council, in Greater Manchester, also revealed it had disciplined a member of staff over their ‘home’ use of social networking sites.
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Government and council employees using Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites at work or posting inappropriate comments from home face being disciplined or even sacked.One police force censured eight employees last year after it caught them using police computers to chat to their friends online.A local authority disciplined a member of staff who used the websites to discuss what he was doing in his social life while he was supposed to be off sick.
And another council caught staff using special software to get around a ban on using office computers to tweet on Twitter and ‘update their status’ on Facebook during working hours.
Now, Government departments and quangos, including officials planning the 2012 Olympics, have issued written guidelines to staff detailing their restrictions on using the sites.They are also paying thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money to outside consultants for courses on the do’s and don’ts of how to behave on Facebook and similar sites.Last year The Mail on Sunday revealed how Sir John Sawers, the head of MI6, was left exposed by a personal security breach after his wife published intimate photos and family details on Facebook.This led to all Government staff who were undergoing developed vetting – required if they were to handle top-secret documents – being warned against posting personal details online which could leave them open to blackmail.Last month the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) distributed a guide to all employees stating: ‘Facebook, Linked-In, Twitter have become very popular ... and offer significant business benefits ... Their use poses risks both to the data on the ODA IT system ... and to the users of the sites and ODA.’A letter to staff says they are allowed to use social networking sites in lunch breaks but warns: ‘You must not publish content about London 2012.’Cheshire Constabulary is one of a number of police forces that impose a total ban on staff using social networking sites on work computers unless it is required for ‘policing purposes’. The force revealed that breaches of its guidelines have led to eight staff being disciplined over their online activities. Seven took place on police premises while another had been disciplined for their home internet usage, which ‘involved inappropriate and offensive comments’.Glasgow City Council bans staff from using Facebook and other similar sites for personal use. It disciplined two staff who attempted to get around these restrictions by using special software to circumnavigate the council’s internet filtering system.Meanwhile St Helens Borough Council, in Merseyside, revealed that ‘we have had one instance where an employee has been disciplined for excessive use of the internet, including posting material about their social life on a social networking site when they were off sick’.Rochdale Borough Council, in Greater Manchester, also revealed it had disciplined a member of staff over their ‘home’ use of social networking sites.
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