Scotland’s council leaders have demanded an pressing assembly with Nicola Sturgeon to debate the real-terms reduce to native authority core budgets.
At a digital assembly of Cosla on Tuesday, all 32 council leaders unanimously expressed their disappointment within the monetary settlement on this month’s Funds.
They mentioned councils will face a real-terms reduce of £371 million to their core funding.
The Funds additionally scrapped the council tax freeze which has been in place lately.
Cosla president Alison Evison mentioned: “Many within the assembly described this settlement for native authorities because the worst they’d seen.
“Council leaders have been clear final night time that we couldn’t sit again and easily settle for this and there was an actual energy of feeling that sufficient is sufficient.
“Not solely do leaders think about that we now have been given a real-terms reduce of £371 million, the native authorities settlement makes no provision for pay, inflation or elevated demand for providers nor for the elevated burden of Nationwide Insurance coverage Contributions.
“Leaders instructed Cosla to hunt an pressing assembly with the First Minister and the Cosla management workforce together with political group leaders and that’s what we will likely be pushing for as a matter of urgency.”
Cosla’s sources spokeswoman Gail Macgregor mentioned: “All 32 of Scotland’s council leaders have been clear final night time that they owe it to their communities to take the case for a greater monetary settlement on to the First Minister as a matter of urgency.”
Kaynak: briturkish.com
