No short cuts to the right cuts

摘要

It came as no surprise when the coalition announced that local government had been asked to contribute ￡1.66bn savings as part of the ￡6.2bn target for 2010/11. Management teams at local authorities across the country are now sitting down to make some difficult decisions about how they address this challenge whilstmaintaining quality and ensuring safety and wellbeing.There are complicating factors. Directors of Children's Services (DCS) find the need to balance the books comes on top of existing challenges caused by increasing Looked After Children populations. Directors of Adult Social Care find themselves in an equally challenging situation, having to deal with the growth in demand from older people.