My colleague Keith has posted on the Social Work Blog about the credit crunch and how it will inevitably impact on social care issues. Are people starting to worry about it yet? Or does it all seem a bit far off and abstract at the moment?
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nope.
I honestly can't see how services and funding can be cut any further than it has been already. Every year, even though the 'good' years, cuts have been happening in adult social services. If anything there will be a greater need from our services in these times.
It isn't something I worry myself too much about though. I tend to work with what I have in front of me.
I'm self employed and do about half of my work for the voluntary sector. Yes - I'm very worried.
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You're right about the ID cards and the wars - very depressing. Shouldn't we be raising funds by increasing tax on those who have made the most out of the boom years - those on 100k plus?
There was a great posting on Boing Boing by someone who is now going to have to carry an ID card: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/26/britain-will-make-fo.html.
On taxing those over 100k - there would be no way in seperating those who have profited from others misery from those who have rightfully earned it. I think the best that could be done is regulating board room bonuses, and re-regulating high finance to make sure this sort of this never happens again.
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Want to see where our resources are going?
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As someone who is self employed, I am very worried about the credit crunch. As my husband said to me yesterday 'It feels like we are working our arse's off just to stand still. And considering that our company gives 10% of it's time and profits (for free) to families dealing with child protection issues/court proceedings, there will be a knock on effect for children.
Want to see where our resources are going? it's a good thing that our security services are being well funded, you only have to look at the recent georgia/rusia crisis to see how fragile peace is in the world.
there will be no looking after anyone if the nations security is not well funded.
The impact of the credit crunch is already being felt by charities such as Scope it seems
And by local authorities which have deposited money in Icelandic bank accounts... were councils right to be putting public money into such accounts?
Looking at prevous global slowdowns and credit crunches, we should expect the following
1) growth in social problems such as homelessness and poverty. I read today of a US sheriff in chicago who has banned evictions in his jurisdiction. There were 43,000 homes at risk. The governmet's poverty.
2) The likely ending of any infrastructure building, ie centres, schools. new homes. It is possble for the government to spend their way out of it by investing in such schemes but i don't think this lot are ideoligically committed to theat.
3) Cuts in services, jobs etc. Don't expect any money in the adult green paper