Simon,In rough numbers it works like this:You put in £2,000 per year in council tax say. The government puts in about £6,000 (in various grants, business rates, etc). Of this money half is spent on schools. One third is spent on social services (for both adults and children). The remaining one sixth goes on roads, bins, parks, libraries, sports centres, the Town Hall and everything else you associate with the council. The rubbish collections and street cleaning is the one service everyone gets every week. If the council can't get this basic service right it is hard to have confidence that it is doing the complicated stuff, like looking after troubled children, well.
Phil Taylor ● 4497d