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WATC Planning Meeting
The café at The Hive
Sawmill Walk
The Butts
Worcester
WR1 3PB
7:30pm Tuesday 21st May
(Meetings are held third Tuesday of each month. Please contact us if you would like to add any agenda items or share suggestions for future meetings and action.)
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Request for Volunteers
Are you available on Saturday 4th, 11th and/or 18th May to collect signatures for a petition? The meeting time and place is 1pm outside Worcester Guildhall.
The petition calls for council reserves to be used in order to maintain essential services and a campaign to resist government cutbacks.
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WATC Planning Meeting
The café at The Hive
Sawmill Walk
The Butts
Worcester
WR1 3PB
7:30pm Tuesday 16th April
(Meetings are held third Tuesday of each month. Please contact us if you would like to add any agenda items or share suggestions for future meetings and action.)
Notes from last meeting: notes-190313
Benefit cuts: Monday will be the day that defines this government
‘…So far, public opinion seems alarmingly content with these cuts – but before we despair of human kindness, many can plead ignorance. The government relies on destitution staying silent and unseen, isolated in families with no collective voice…’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/28/benefit-cuts-monday-defines-government
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WATC Planning Meeting
The café at The Hive
Sawmill Walk
The Butts
Worcester
WR1 3PB
7pm Tuesday 19th March
(Meetings are held third Tuesday of each month. Please contact us if you would like to add any agenda items or share suggestions for future meetings and action.)
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Next WATC Planning Meeting
The café at The Hive
Sawmill Walk
The Butts
Worcester
WR1 3PB
7pm Tuesday 19th February
(Meetings are held third Tuesday of each month. Please contact us if you would like to add any agenda items or share suggestions for future meetings and action.)
Next WATC Planning Meeting
The café at The Hive
Sawmill Walk
The Butts
Worcester
WR1 3PB
Tuesday 15th January at 7.30pm
(Meetings are held third Tuesday of each month. Please contact us if you would like to add any agenda items or share suggestions for future meetings and action.)
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Local authorities will have to save £513,000 more than originally thought
Worcester News, 1/1/13
(Worcester City Council will) need to save another £513,000 over that two-year period, on top of the £1.2 million of cuts earmarked. The city council has already announced there will be 26 job losses over the next two years in a bid to help balance the books, but that will not dent the £513,000 of fresh cuts required.
Worcestershire County Council will not know its funding until January, but has been told to expect a cut of about 2.4 per cent. That is in line with County Hall’s predictions and will not affect the existing plan to cut up to £100 million from spending by 2016.
http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/10133336.Council_chiefs_facing_new_financial_worries/
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Dates of full council meetings
At our previous meeting on 18th December, we discussed the opportunity to express opposition to cuts at local council meetings through public participation slots and group demonstrations. Below are dates of full council meetings:
Worcestershire County Council (all 10am at County Hall)
- 17th January
- 14th February
- 23rd May
Worcester City Council (both 7pm at the Guildhall)
- 19th February
- 26th March
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Legal challenge over council’s care cap
A teenager and his family are launching a legal challenge against a ‘draconian’ new policy introduced by Worcestershire County Council which may force him into a care home.
The council ruled in November it was imposing a maximum expenditure policy which would cap the amount of money it spends on new applications for adult social care packages as well as for existing users whose needs have to be reassessed. The plan was part of efforts to save £500,000 over the next four years from the council’s budget.
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