Alan B'Stard
Well-Known Forumite
Documentary available on Iplayer. Depressing stuff but worth watching.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nvwr8/The_Year_the_Town_Hall_Shrank_All_In_This_Together/
"Documentary series telling the story of how the city of Stoke-on-Trent struggles to cope with the impact of the largest funding cuts to local government ever imposed by central government.
The depth of the cuts forces not just the council to reconsider what they do and how they do it, but the people of Stoke to ask themselves what they expect their local authority to do for them. This is not just the story of Stoke, it is the story of us all as it goes behind the rhetoric of whether we are all in it together in this age of austerity, or whether it is right to take tough choices because we have become over-dependent on services that we can simply no longer afford"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nvwr8/The_Year_the_Town_Hall_Shrank_All_In_This_Together/
"Documentary series telling the story of how the city of Stoke-on-Trent struggles to cope with the impact of the largest funding cuts to local government ever imposed by central government.
The depth of the cuts forces not just the council to reconsider what they do and how they do it, but the people of Stoke to ask themselves what they expect their local authority to do for them. This is not just the story of Stoke, it is the story of us all as it goes behind the rhetoric of whether we are all in it together in this age of austerity, or whether it is right to take tough choices because we have become over-dependent on services that we can simply no longer afford"