Fife Labour Social Work spokesperson Tom Adams has described this year’s social work budget process as an attempt by the SNP and Lib Dems to con people. Mr Adams said; “We have SNP politicians standing up in the Scottish Parliament welcoming the fact that the SNP Lib Dem administration in Fife has put £4 million of additional spend into social work services. The truth is that while they did indeed put £4 million in through the budget last week, they also in the same budget put through £7.296 million of cuts which by my arithmetic is a total cut to the social work budget of £3.296 million!
He continued; “You just could not make this up. These SNP and Liberal councillors are treating the electorate with contempt and they then have the gall to put out statements saying Labour would not have funded social work with this additional money, well yes because we would not have cut it in the first place.
“We need more openness, honesty and transparency through proper scrutiny and accountability. The current flawed committee system is not able to deliver and ensure that councillors get the information they need to do the job they should be doing. The SNP and Liberal councillors in Fife council are failing the people of Fife and trying to pull the wool over their eyes and it must stop. Their time has come and they must go”.
