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The Royal Borough is sharing its Chief Executive, Derek Myers, with neighbouring borough Hammersmith & Fulham – saving £200,000 per year

On December 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The overall proposals are expected to save taxpayers in the three

authorities £33.4 million by 2014/15, while at the same time

leading to improvements in many areas. While more services are

likely to be combined across the three authorities in due

course, in some cases it has proved more practicable in the short

term to share [...]

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Funding Cuts to Local Authorities

On December 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment

(extracted from The Guardian, 13/12/10)

Councils will today be told to do “more for less” as they are set their funding allocation for the next two years, revealing for the first time decisions about where the frontline cuts to social services, libraries, bin services and leisure facilities are likely to fall.

Town halls are bracing [...]

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What will the cuts mean for social care services in England’s wealthiest borough?

On November 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment

According to recent newspaper reporting:

“It is wrong to scare people about ‘cuts’. The coalition government has prioritised social care – the spending review announced significant extra funding for social care for each of the next four years, increasing to an extra £2bn investment in 2014-15.
This extra money means no councils need to [...]

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JOINT DEMENTIA STRATEGY – CAN YOU HELP?

On June 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment

We would like to involve as many carers of people with dementia as possible in the implementation of our new strategy. This will help us to ensure that we get the design, location and publicity of new services right. It will help us to understand why so many people [...]

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Dignity Champions Update – May 2010

On May 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Hi Everyone,

Well this has been a really busy month for all 570+ members of K&C LINk, but particularly so for the LINk ‘Dignity Champions.’  After the delight and gratitude with our success sunk in, we ran an induction training course for interested members on the concept of ‘dignity champions.’  We ran through the ‘dignity [...]

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