Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Budget proposals cut care homes and day centres
Some of the most vulnerable people in Haringey will be hit hardest of all over the next three years in a raft of cuts as the council is forced to hack another £70million from its budget.
The Journal has the list. Some of it:
Top of the list - close up to three day care centres for people with severe learning difficulties, while Linden House residential home in South Tottenham is also slated for closure.
- streamlining youth services to focus on health and training over leisure opportunities;
- closing Tottenham’s recycling centre, one of only two in the borough;
- closing Wolves Lane Nursery;
- cutting £500,000 funding per year from Alexandra Palace;
- offloading Bruce Castle Museum in Tottenham to a charitable trust;
- stopping the partial funding of Highgate’s Jacksons Lane theatre;
- withdrawing from managing Crouch End’s Haslemere respite centre for children and their carers;
- cleaning the streets less often and according to need;
- hiring out public parks for events more often;
- increasing parking charges;
- cracking down on traffic offences;
- overhauling the parks service to make it more efficient;
- increasing social housing rents (by £2.36 to an average £105.49 per week);
- offering more people housing outside of Haringey;
- withdrawing free advisory services;
- reducing consultation with residents on planning applications;
- creating a “single front door” online for all customer services and transferring as much online as possible.
This is the hardest hit, personified.
Does anyone else think that freezing Council Tax is not necessarily part of the answer?
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Mr Brown was perhaps more City-obsequious than any other Chancellor.
He boasted he had ended (Conservative) boom and bust. He then confused a credit-fuelled, distended boom for stable growth.
The price for this folly is to be paid for many years to come and mostly by those who can least afford it.
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Permalink Reply by DavidJ on
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Ah yes, Gordon Brown spent too much money - how silly to want to repair the infrastructure -including schools, hospitals, railways . . .after 18 years of Tory efforts to dismantle the state (and now here we go again).
My children were lucky enough to go to local schools after Labour got back in. Even the state of the buildings, nevermind the lack of equipment and morale by the late 1990s was shaming to a wealthy country. The transformation in the following years was remarkable.
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David you're quite right, new schools and hospitals were indeed built.
However, many were paid for using PFI (private finance initiaitve). It's far more costly than the old Hire Purchase. The wide use of this financing under Labour, is so extremely expensive that it was even criticised by Conservatives. I invite you to check out PFI.
To use David's analogy, Mr Brown thought that the seven years of fat and feast would never end. Has there been any apology?
Paying for (needed) new schools and hopsitals that way, is comparable to a government going down to the Money Shop, or Wonga, to pay for groceries!
We'll all be paying for years to come for that massive mistake.
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Sure, PFI has been a mess. But can you also acknowledge how bad things were in terms of the neglected infrastructure by the late 1990s??
I also note that the coalition have continued to use PFI.
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Permalink Reply by GERARD on
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I have to agree with David here. The Tories, assisted by their LibDum friends, have engaged in an ideological attack on public services and consequently negatively impact the more vulnerable in our society.
I would fully accept that public spending and the benefit system needed to be reviewed and also that there is a level of benefit fraud which needed/needs to be addressed. But a fraud management framework across the board should be consistent to take account of the private sector, the City of London and members of parliament to name but a few.
This £74m proposal to cut services in Haringey will hit very vulnerable people and we (UNISON, Unite, GMB, UCATT and the NUT) will be organising campaigns on the closure of, in particular, Children's Centres and Adult Community Services and would welcome any support our community neighbours and colleagues can offer. We all need to stand together on this one.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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It was Labour who destroyed public services by bankrupting the British economy and borrowing recklessly to support THEIR ideology.
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I think most reasonable people who are informed know thats simply bullshit John
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Now I know you are just having a laugh. - or possibly you are very young and remember nothing before about 1999.
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I'm old enough to remember at least two Labour governments which destroyed the economy. Pound in your pocket Wilson ? Double-digit inflation James Callaghan ?
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Of course all the previous Tory governments looked after everyone equally and properly and didn't negatively impact the country in any way at all. I think you're one of these interesting history revisionists John!!
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