How have public sector budget cuts impacted upon Cipfa members?
Sure Start programmes and children's centres are closing as a result of public sector budget cuts.
In June, the state sector budget surplus was 5.8 billion euros, up from 1 billion euros a year earlier.
The attempt to produce a balanced public sector budget primarily through cuts to spending failed in the previous parliament.
Some of the support so far, in particular under sector budget support, is designed precisely to help the most vulnerable.
There have been big cuts in civil service staff numbers as part of the government's public sector budget cuts.
"The UK is facing some of the most stringent public sector budget cuts since the second world war.
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A Tory administration would not often expect to get the opportunity to cut a fifth of the public sector budget without being destroyed in the deluge of protest.
But the strategy makes me very worried about the future of other similar and much more defensible investments, in sector budget support and trusted civil society organisations.
It can go to the finance ministry (general budget support) or be allocated to particular sectors such as health or education (sector budget support).
