Apologies to David Clark, labour’s candidate for Dunedin North. I accidently posted this under my name not his. Clare
Cuts of up to 30 front line staff at Child, Youth and Family make a lie of National’s promise not to cut front line services.
Our community, our children deserve better. We cannot stand by and let these cuts occur.
In April, Bill English said National was ‘committed to moving resources from the back office to the frontline so we can deliver improved public services to taxpayers with little or no new money over the next few years’. *
Questions:
- How is reducing the number of frontline social workers in Dunedin “moving resources to the frontline”?
- How is making highly trained social workers redundant who support and protect our most vulnerable children going to “deliver improved public services to taxpayers”?
The Government needs to honour its promise to retain front line services. All New Zealanders should demand that the Government reverse this appalling decision.
* [Source: Minister of Finance press release, “Room for savings in state sector back office” dated 13 April 2011]
Maybe there are too many CYF social workers in dunedin? If they are surplus to requirements in their current area and won’t move to where they are needed, why should they be employed?
Edit: Where is the proof of these cuts? could this be an unintended side effect of the anti-smacking bill? have you teased this idea out beyond faux outrage at National doing what they do best, govern well?
Last night on close up Paula Bennett said there are jobs in Kawrau. Maybe they could move there (or commute via plane)?
@lollercaust
“….National doing what they do best, govern well?”
You must lead a very sheltered life to be so deluded as to write such a statement; either that or you have a very,very low standard to measure good governance against. I pity you.