tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post7012733321319880831..comments2024-03-28T09:45:17.708+00:00Comments on WEMBLEY MATTERS: Times will be getting harder in Brent in 2013Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-91553510794377531732013-01-03T11:26:45.295+00:002013-01-03T11:26:45.295+00:00Haven't the council already got rid of lots of...Haven't the council already got rid of lots of Directors and hundreds of staff?<br /><br />What about redundancy costs?<br /><br />And who will run all the services if all the staff are gone?<br /><br />Seems a bit of a simplistic budget on the back of a cigarette box am afraid<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-77251678117269390642013-01-02T23:04:54.624+00:002013-01-02T23:04:54.624+00:00The Brent Council expenditure in 2011/2012 was £10...The Brent Council expenditure in 2011/2012 was £1042 million. It is my understanding that the £106 m cuts was for a three year period. Thus by cutting about 3% each year the Council will have reached its target.Much of this expenditure relates to the high cost of administration of services. So for example in that period there were 5 people administering the Voluntary Sector budget of about £900,000. This means that, at least, say £150,000 or so would have been staff overheads ie about 13%. This is very high. The cut of one person and the closing of an office would have dealt with the overspend. Imagine this multiplied by all the various departments and voila- the cuts are resolved.Martin Rhttp://redston.org/associatesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-66785096740022122762013-01-02T09:31:45.333+00:002013-01-02T09:31:45.333+00:00Martin - great post - would like to hear a bit mor...Martin - great post - would like to hear a bit more detail about your ideas for how a 'proactive campaign' against the cuts would work and how it would differ from the marches, letters, opinion pieces etc. that have been used so far. Do you advocate Brent not passing balanced budgets to protest cuts? How would you have saved £106 million otherwise? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com