Government 'Sneaks Out' £85m Cut To Public Health On Last Day Before Parliamentary Recess Funding for public health services like sexual health clinics and mother and baby support has been cut by £85m in an announcement “sneaked out” by ministers on the last day of the parliamentary term.
The slashing of grants for councils will affect community and prevention services also including ‘stop smoking’ clinics, schemes to tackle obesity, and drug and alcohol misuse services for children and young people.
The grants are being cut by nearly £2 per person to £3.134bn - a 3.3% fall - in just one year, health minister Steve Brine confirmed on Thursday. Huffington Post UK
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The slashing of grants for councils will affect community and prevention services also including ‘stop smoking’ clinics, schemes to tackle obesity, and drug and alcohol misuse services for children and young people.
The grants are being cut by nearly £2 per person to £3.134bn - a 3.3% fall - in just one year, health minister Steve Brine confirmed on Thursday. Huffington Post UK
See also:
- 2019-20 Ring-fenced Public Health Grant to Local Authorities :Written statement UK Parliament
- Public health grants to local authorities: 2019 to 2020 Department of Health and Social Care
- Cuts to public health are “unnecessary, undesirable and unacceptable” The Association of Directors of Public Health
- New reductions to the public health grant will heap more pressure on local authorities The Health Foundation
- Councils respond to cut in public health grants allocation Local Government Association
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