| Comment | This is not the whole story here, I'm afraid.
What's happened is that the Glasgow Communities Fund, which is the the funding we're talking about here, invited bids for the next rounds of funding up to 2022/23, and after scoring all the bids against a set of objectives, other organisations were selected to carry out advice and welfare rights work. You can see the papers on this [here](https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/councillorsandcommittees/submissiondocuments.asp?submissionid=97606). The criteria are in the main paper, selected bids in appendix 1, and rejected in appendix 2.
As you'll see from the papers, there is no intention of cutting welfare rights or legal advice services, but they will be given to organisations that (in the judgement of council officers) submitted better applications. You'll see in appendix 1 that the funded organisations include Govan Advice Centre, Money Matters and several others.
It could of course be that the judgements were wrong and funding should have been given to CAP instead of these others - without seeing the bids none of us can say.
It's certainly very tough on CAB staff.
Disclaimer: I'm a member of the SNP, but not a councillor, and speaking for myself only. I've worked on enough funding bids over the years to know how this stuff works, and has to work. |
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