Well, that’s a relief.

These initials cuts won’t really hurt the general public.

Schools have had more than enough money thrown at them in the past and should easily be able to make savings. £1.71 million between each school in Shropshire is probably not going to make a huge difference anyway and recession and cuts are when school managers’ skills come to the play, sorting out the doers from the wafflers. And a I hope that there will be a lot less resort to “early retirement” when the wafflers can’t handle it, because it’s taxpayers who pay for, and support, these generous and often-indulgent retirement schemes.

Road safety: inherently a traffic police job with some taught in schools anyway, so not much at danger there, especially as there’s still a budget existing. If this subject worries people, then the money could be shifted from various odd projects that the council seem to have initiated in the recent past. Additionally, any “passive” road safety such as markings and signs can be taken from the road budget. Any chief highways engineer who is worth their salary should have learnt the concept of designing safety into road construction at school. No reason for a separate department and budget – time to make people at the top less reliant on consultants to do their job for them and use assets at their disposal more effectively

Administration: I’m surprised that it’s so little; I would have thought that there’s scope for further, much larger savings somewhere amongst the monster bureaucracy that’s thrived under Labour largesse.

Community relations: people will either be friendly to each other or they won’t. No need for payment to council employees to try and make us all be nice to each other and in cases where we’re not, and it affects the community, then “resolution” of the matter can come from the police budget, (i.e. a police response). Again, this is a reduction, not a disappearance of funding anyway and is to be applauded also for its potential in making people rely less on the state telling them how to act and behave.

Scope for far more, methinks. Culture doesn’t seem to have played its role in saving money yet. There’s also a lot of strange jobs out there that I really don’t think are necessary to provide a decent level of public service or essential services.

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good they are bloated and need to go on a diet lets hope this means less red tape for licencing and inspections

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its true shropshire school children have less money per pupil from the government than almost anywhere in england

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