Social care cuts - how is your council coping? Demos

Thinktank Demos have released a map of how well councils are doing in the face of cuts.

This is what they say about RBKC:

Kensington and Chelsea

• Rank: 111 out of 152 councils in England

• Cuts Level: Low cut

• Coping Level: Poor

How we made the Coping Index.
Below is some further information about cuts in your local area:

1. -3.19 per cent budget change to disabled children and families' care and support
2. -5.5 per cent budget change to adult care and support
3. -1.61 per cent budget change to older people's care and support

Kensington and Chelsea have increased the cost of using community meals services and local day centres by 3 per cent, using specialist transport by 4 per cent and the cost of accessible leisure activities by 5 per cent. The council has also closed one day centre due to low levels of interest from local disabled residents.
http://disability-cuts-map.demos.co.uk/local-authority/kensington-chelsea/

In terms of the other boroughs in the new "triborough", the combined Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham as well as RBKC:
H and F has been rated as having a good ability to cope, despite very high cuts,
Wesminster rated as having a very poor ability to cope, with high cuts is the third worse borough in England.

What this will mean in the up-coming years remains to be seen. (For information about other Councils just select the name of the council in the drop-down menu.)