The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is trying to outdo Birmingham with its adult social services cuts. It’s even been singled out for praise by the Taxpayers Alliance.
In November 2009, £569,000 worth of cuts in adult social care were added to the £993,000 already agreed in October – a cut of £1.5m .
All of this means that continuing adult social care and services for those with learning difficulties will be badly hit with a day centre closing. Three posts will go from The learning disability service will lose posts, as will homecare management and adult social care assessment.
This is a council where one quarter (12 out of 50) social worker posts were vacant before Xmas, posts that were covered by agency social workers who cost about £20,000 more than directly employed staff each year.
Read about it (complete with pathetic photo pose) at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7036554/Windsor-and-Maidenhead-council-makes-history-with-biggest-ever-cut-in-council-tax.html
