Concerns have been raised about council ‘reviews’ in Calderdale.
The Examiner reported Calderdale Council’s budget proposals which includes plans for a council tax freeze this year but job losses at around 200 over the next three years.
Now the leader of the Lib Dems in Calderdale, Clr Janet Battye, said the ‘workforce development programme’ had never been mooted before.
She said: “From the information provided in the budget papers it is difficult to understand what they intend to do.
“How are they going to ‘realign’ other services with public health outcomes?
“There are four proposals about the waste collection service with an initial reduction of over £500,000 – what impact will that have?
“Let alone a ‘Future Workforce Programme’ which we’ve never heard of.
“There are 27 proposals in total, 11 of which involve reviews.
“These are substantial pieces of work with little clear explanation of how and why they fit into any vision or strategy for local services. Given the slow pace of development and implementation of many of their recent strategies – such as child poverty on which work appears not to have started – we must seriously question their competence to run the council without close involvement of all councillors.”
The Labour Party in Calderdale made the budget proposals working alone after their recent coalition with the Lib Dems ended.
The Lib Dems say they will be proposing green economy measures in their own proposals.
The draft budget proposals will go out to consultation and be debated at full council.
