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You are here: Home / News Archive / OxFSN Supports Enough is Enough

OxFSN Supports Enough is Enough

November 16, 2015 By OxFSN Webmaster

Oxfordshire Family Support Network (OxFSN) – works with the families of people with learning disabilities – and supports the ‘Enough is Enough‘ campaign:

An unprecedented alliance of voluntary sector organisations and care providers is today launching a campaign calling on Oxfordshire County Council to reconsider its 95 Budget Options currently out for consultation.

The coalition, which includes leading voluntary sector services, information and advice services, and registered care providers, is a coalition, which is voicing concerns about proposals to save a further £50m from Oxfordshire County Council’s budgets on top of year-on-year cuts.

In 95 days’ time from today, Oxfordshire County Council’s Full Cabinet will meet to decide whether the 95 Budget Options totalling £52.6m, will be voted through. Before then, a reduction in the Local Government Settlement will be determined. Both decisions, if made as expected, will risk causing serious harm to the wellbeing of Oxfordshire’s vulnerable residents.

The Enough is Enough alliance says that the 95 Budget Options will affect local vulnerable and elderly people in a cumulative and wide-ranging way; from the wider impact of the removal of funding for subsidised buses to the specific halting of funding for exceptionally high-quality and effective voluntary sector service providers, without whom it is simply not possible to provide social care locally.

A vulnerable person may be someone who has a life-long condition from birth, or one which has crept up over a period of months or years, or a life-changing accident which makes yesterday so much different to today or tomorrow. It could be you or me. All of these issues have a ripple effect breaking on family, friends and our Oxfordshire communities.

We say Enough is Enough. The Budget Options are unacceptable and economically perverse. If applied they will be hugely damaging to the long-term health of NHS provision and cause a crisis in social care and our communities. We will publish updates through to 26 January when Cabinet make their decision and to 16 February, 95 days from today, when Full Cabinet has the final vote on these proposals.

We encourage and urge, residents of Oxfordshire to register your comments and concerns through the Council’s Consultation. ”


Follow the links to read and comment on Oxfordshire County Council’s proposed budget cuts to:

  • Adult Social Care
  • Children, Education and Families
  • Budget Savings Options in the years between 2016/17 and 2019/20

***Press release*** information see: Enough is Enough media contacts


Local residents may like to use these sample letter templates to write to their local MP and/or local Councillor.

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