More social workers could be employed in East Renfrewshire as the council plans to invest over £1.8m of reserves to ease “serious financial challenges”.
Now, a report to East Renfrewshire Council’s cabinet suggests an initial phase of investment should put £700,000 into the area’s health and social care partnership . The environment department could get £400,000 towards developing a plan to “inform policy and approach to the introduction of parking charges”.
The largest employers in the pension fund, which includes the 12 councils in the former Strathclyde region, will contribute 6.5% of the value of their payroll over the next two years, before rates revert to 17.5%.
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