14th December 2010, 02:03 PM
And I hear that MoLA are being shed by the MoL too in 2011. How they will do away from the cosy nest of the public-funds of the MoL to support them in times of woe is anyone's guess, I think.
This is all so difficult to comprehend, so difficult to create any sort of realisitc prgnosis. To say we are totally f*cked might be putting it mildly - we seem to be so upprepared for all of this change and cutting. It's as if all of the good advocacy of the past 15 years and more has been for naught.
I fear too that the new Localism Bill, with its concept of general competency for LAs might do away for a while any notion of statutory HERs. They would need ot be established as part of a national infrastructure which this government (for want of a better word) is rapidly dismantling.
Hmmm - this is a bit negative from me. Normally I try to be upbeat and positive but the news seems to be getting just worse and worse. Boxoffrogs is right, I fear. April 2011 is going to be the start of a very rocky road. The last six months have just been headlines, soon we will get to the small print.
This is all so difficult to comprehend, so difficult to create any sort of realisitc prgnosis. To say we are totally f*cked might be putting it mildly - we seem to be so upprepared for all of this change and cutting. It's as if all of the good advocacy of the past 15 years and more has been for naught.
I fear too that the new Localism Bill, with its concept of general competency for LAs might do away for a while any notion of statutory HERs. They would need ot be established as part of a national infrastructure which this government (for want of a better word) is rapidly dismantling.
Hmmm - this is a bit negative from me. Normally I try to be upbeat and positive but the news seems to be getting just worse and worse. Boxoffrogs is right, I fear. April 2011 is going to be the start of a very rocky road. The last six months have just been headlines, soon we will get to the small print.