What I wish I could tell my boss: `You take money from people who have the least`
(The Guardian Money News)

The local government worker: you enjoy a fat salary as vulnerable members of our communities face crisisYou don´t understand that our work is hard. You ask us to deliver complex services, yet our work is undermined by budget cuts. Waiting lists for NHS hospitals have now hit a 10-year high. The level of assessed risk before we help a child in need has been raised. The charity Action for Children recently published a report that showed tens of thousands of children at risk of harm across the UK are not being helped by local authorities. We simply can´t afford to.Government budget cuts bite deep. Our local council has seen its annual spending on services fall by about 40% in real terms since 2010. You have asked us to save another 15%-20% in the coming years. Continue reading...