SIGOMA chair responds to Adass survey

Posted on November 06, 2024

Responding to the Adass survey, Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton, Chair of the Special Interest Group of Municipal Authorities (SIGOMA) said, “This survey will come as no surprise to our members who have seen a decade of increasing pressures and funding cuts. The budget contained £600m of additional funding for social care, but with demand at record levels, significant increases in the National Living Wage and costs passed on by the increase in the employer national insurance contributions, this increase will not mean the sector is properly funded. We ask the government to increase funding and ensure that all new funding is going to places of the highest need.

Read our comments in the Yorkshire Post, here.