Decisions by Westminster Conservatives mean that The Caravan Project, next to St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington, is set to close on the 31st August 2010. The Project provides a vital resource for recovering drug and alcohol addicts. The threat of closure has come as a blow to the 200 service users of the Caravan Project which provides a safe area (away from street drug dealers) for users and ...

Westminster City Council spends over £15 million a year on temporary contact staff, including 26 people who are costing the Council over £100,000 a year, according to information uncovered by Labour Councillors. The highest paid temporary employee is a Project Manager in the Children's Services Department who is costing Council Tax payers over £185,000 a year, including a 25...

Westminster residents will lose £38 million over the next 2 years - £21.1 million in 2011/12 and £16.9 million in 2012/13 – as the Government has taken the axe to local services. Every Council service will be hit by the Government cuts, including nearly £2 million cut from Early Years provision, hitting children’s services hard. Labour Councillors say that the c...

Conservatives guilty of massive incompetence after parking income falls by £20 million - services to the elderly and children slashed; Hundreds of jobs to go; Charges to go up and new charges introduced. Westminster Conservatives have revealed their plans to slash £60 million from the Council's budget over the next three years in order to fill the £20 million a year black ho...

Project Evaluator - Short Term Detention Project This leading support services organisation specialises in providing a consultancy service to the public sector is currently looking to recruit an Project Evaluator to provide an evaluation of a short term Detention Project. Background:- The UKBA (UK Business Advisors) has secured £2,000,000 from the Returns and Reintegration Fund controlled by...

Conservative promise to "do more with less money" - but services will be cut and charges will increase. A 'consultation' exercise on £70 million service cuts proposed by Westminster Conservatives has been branded as a sham by Labour Councillors who say that the Council is deliberately deceiving residents by claiming that it will "deliver better services with less money", while impl...

Westminster City Council is planning to cut £2 million from the Social Services budget and raise the eligibility threshold for social care services to cover only people with substantial and critical levels of need under the Fair Access to Care Services (FACS) criteria. This will affect over 3,000 people in Westminster with 'moderate needs'. An estimated 1,700 adults would remain el...

Despite a £20 million hole in the Council's budget, which has led to £60 million of cuts over the next three years, Westminster Conservatives found no difficulty in spending nearly £10,000 on a 'Living City 2010 Summer Reception' at Westminster Abbey on 1st July. Attended by 151 people, the Reception costs were £9,381 of which food was £1,680 and drinks...

Westminster Labour call for David Cameron to denounce slap-up dinner on the rates for Conservative Councillors who lost £17 million investing in now-failed Icelandic Banks. Labour Councillors in Westminster have blasted Westminster Conservatives for going ahead with a £23,000 Black-Tie Civic Dinner at Lancaster House, St James's on Sunday 22nd March. Labour Councillors say that sp...

Westminster Conservatives have axed 1,020 jobs over the past two years, following a 'Made in Westminster' financial disaster in 2009/10 which saw the Council's parking income fall by £20 million and a £60 million cuts programme instigated by the Council following the election of the Conservative-led Government in May 2010. So far the Council has been through five phases ...