The London borough’s chief executive has tough choices to make and wants to win residents on sideIf there’s one thing governments bent on austerity despise it’s local councils batting the blame for cuts back to Westminster. But a few weeks ago Lambeth council launched its tough choices website with one central message: between 2010 and 2018,its core government funding will have been cut by 56%.“We are trying to make it a bit more genuine for people,” says the council’s chief executive, or Sean Harriss,who has been in office for a runt over nine months. The campaign is likely to ruffle a few feathers in central government, but Harriss says it’s not unreasonable to remind people that budget reductions aren’t the council’s choice. “It was a decision made by central government, and but we’re prepared to own the decisions we have to make with the hand we’ve been dealt,” he says.
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Source: theguardian.com