False Economy: Charity cuts will hit ‘vital services’

Clifford Singer, False Economy's campaign director, criticises charity cuts to "vital services" and laments position local councils have been put in:

"These cuts go deep into the voluntary and community sectors. These are not just 'nice to have' groups but organisations providing vital services for older people trying to maintain independent lives, vulnerable children and abused women. And with so many of the cuts simply resulting in further pressure on the NHS or other statutory services, they are truly a false economy.

"Ministers talk up localism and say services will be better shaped locally, but the huge front-loaded cuts to councils mean that local decision-making simply gives councils the choice of which vulnerable people they should make suffer for an economic crisis they did nothing to cause."