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How the Big Society finds itself in the cuts front line
Jon Snow blogs on how and why the cuts are hitting the voluntary sector the hardest.
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Council staff are opting for pay cuts to save their jobs as town halls implement the biggest budget reductions since the Second World War, writes Political Correspondent Cathy Newman.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has defended cuts to local Government budgets by pointing to authorities that have protected services.
The claim “More than 50,000 NHS staff posts are set for the axe” The TUC flags research by False Economy, February 23, 2011
More than 50,000 NHS jobs will be lost over the next five years due to Government spending cuts, a campaign group claims, as Channel 4 News finds mental health services could be badly hit.
Cathy Newman checks out the numbers on NHS doctors and managers.
The battle against budget cuts reaches new levels in the US State of Wisconsin, as thousands of public service workers invade the Senate – and Democratic Senators go on strike.
It’s not just in Britain that the Government’s cutting spending. President Obama is planning a $1.1trillion cut – and his political opponents say that’s not enough, as Felicity Spector reports.
Ken Clarke has been warning the middle classes are unaware of the scale of spending cuts that will hit them this year, prompting calls from some Tory quarters for him to quit.
The High Court rules that Education Secretary Michael Gove was wrong to scrap parts of England’s school-building programme without consultation. His Department could now face compensation claims.
More than 80 Liberal Democrat councillors attack the Government over local spending cuts – but an expert tells Channel 4 News the cuts are not unreasonable.
Jon Snow blogs on how and why the cuts are hitting the voluntary sector the hardest.
Leisure centres, libraries, swimming pools and public toilets are set to close across Manchester as part of the city council’s bid to make savings of nearly £110m this financial year.
The claim “Yvette Cooper should know that Alan Johnson refused to guarantee police numbers, and (Ed) Balls admitted he would cut force budgets by over £1bn a year” Policing Minister Nick Herbert MP, Radio 4’s World this Weekend
Government spending cuts are undermining the Big Society strategy and risk “destroying the volunteer army” needed to make it work, the head of Britain’s largest volunteering charity warns.
Exclusive: More than half of domestic violence services across the country do not know if they will be able to remain fully open after March due to funding cuts, Channel 4 News learns.