Submission Documents: Motion by Councillor Jon Molyneux:- "Council notes that the Glasgow City Council Integration Joint Board (IJB) passed its budget for 2025/26 on 19th March 2025 and that this included £42m of savings, including cuts to supported living for people with complex needs, community mental health teams, counselling to survivors of sexual violence based at the Sandyford clinic, employability support, and health improvement teams. Council believes that many of these cuts will lead to increased pressure on other parts of the system, such as acute care and care home beds, and are therefore a false economy. Council notes the IJB's medium term strategy considers the funding gap could rise to £250m over next three years. This is heavily linked to the significant uncontrolled and unfunded pressures on homelessness services. Council also noted that the medium term forecast does not currently take cognisance of £5bn planned UK Government cuts to social security, which will actively harm disabled people and those with complex needs and increase demand on many of the very services which are simultaneously being cut. Council agrees this is not sustainable, that there is a crisis in funding for health and social care, and that this requires a step change in the levels of funding available and the way that funding is administered. Council therefore agrees to write to both UK and Scottish Governments and to COSLA making it clear that current funding for health and social care is inadequate, that IJBs are being forced to make decisions which will actively harm some of the most vulnerable, that there needs to be a substantial increase in the funding of community health and social care services, and calls on all levels of Government to work together to address this growing crisis." Help Icon

This is the list of documents available for the submission Motion by Councillor Jon Molyneux:- "Council notes that the Glasgow City Council Integration Joint Board (IJB) passed its budget for 2025/26 on 19th March 2025 and that this included £42m of savings, including cuts to supported living for people with complex needs, community mental health teams, counselling to survivors of sexual violence based at the Sandyford clinic, employability support, and health improvement teams. Council believes that many of these cuts will lead to increased pressure on other parts of the system, such as acute care and care home beds, and are therefore a false economy. Council notes the IJB's medium term strategy considers the funding gap could rise to £250m over next three years. This is heavily linked to the significant uncontrolled and unfunded pressures on homelessness services. Council also noted that the medium term forecast does not currently take cognisance of £5bn planned UK Government cuts to social security, which will actively harm disabled people and those with complex needs and increase demand on many of the very services which are simultaneously being cut. Council agrees this is not sustainable, that there is a crisis in funding for health and social care, and that this requires a step change in the levels of funding available and the way that funding is administered. Council therefore agrees to write to both UK and Scottish Governments and to COSLA making it clear that current funding for health and social care is inadequate, that IJBs are being forced to make decisions which will actively harm some of the most vulnerable, that there needs to be a substantial increase in the funding of community health and social care services, and calls on all levels of Government to work together to address this growing crisis.".

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