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Straight Answers Required Regarding Job Cuts At Reading Borough Council
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…Troubled Council Making Deep Cuts After Years of Overspending…
Rob Wilson, Member of Parliament for Reading East, today called for Reading Borough Council to be honest about the number of job cuts it will be making in the 2007 /08 financial year. Following several requests from constituents, Mr Wilson has been trying to get the information from Reading Borough Council for the past six weeks. According to information released under the Freedom of Information Act, during the current financial year (2006/7) a total of 62 jobs have been lost through redundancies and early retirement. Approximately a further “30 posts have been deleted through natural wastage and not filling vacancies” according to Reading Borough Council. That’s almost 100 job cuts in the current financial year. Next year’s budget for Reading Borough Council is set to be even more severe and Council Leader, Cllr David Sutton, has publicly said there will be redundancies. Rob Wilson said: “I think it was this announcement by the Council Leader that got my constituents asking questions. They want me to get the answers. "However, I can’t give them any because Reading Borough Council says it doesn’t “have a projection of redundancies for the coming financial year”. It also says it cannot estimate, because it does not know how many jobs will be lost through job freezes and mergers for example. “This is not good enough. It is astounding that a local authority setting a budget of hundreds of millions of pounds doesn’t know how many people it needs to staff each department to deliver its services. "Surely department heads have been involved in the budgeting process and have indicated their staffing requirements for the year ahead in order to deliver services? “I am more concerned about what this budget doesn’t say then what it does say, and I am concerned that my constituents will be the ones who are on the receiving end of a Council involved in crisis cuts to try to balance its budget. "Without proper published information, this is a recipe for rumour, instability and a demoralised workforce. What have the Unions been told and agreed to? We must have answers to these important questions if we are to have any confidence in the budget that is being proposed.” 20/02/07 |
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