Central Coast deserves better than 300 job cuts and slashed vital services says union
色狼社区Media release:
The NSW Government has slashed 300 public sector jobs on the Central Coast, with the privatisation of Disability Services and Out Of Home Care now also eating away at the community said the Public Service Association (PSA).
鈥淭his is a Government that just builds roads, not communities or a society,鈥 said 色狼社区General Secretary, Stewart Little.
鈥淭he Central Coast is out of sight and out of mind as far as this Government is concerned with the highest rate of vulnerable children in Out Of Home Care of all FACS districts in the state.鈥
鈥淭he Government鈥檚 ongoing privatisation agenda is setting up the Central Coast to fail spectacularly.鈥
鈥淚f the Government really wants to make a difference to the lives of the people of NSW, it should urgently rethink the catastrophic plan to privatise the Land Titles Registry, a move condemned by everyone from academics to property developers and pull back from the forced transfer of state disability services.鈥
鈥淭he Government trumpets its efforts on 鈥榣ife-changing projects鈥 but what could be more life changing for millions of people across NSW than to lose the security on their property?
鈥淲hat could be more life changing for tens of thousands of families than to have the care of loved ones with disability thrown into free fall after the Government completely steps away from that space?鈥
鈥淣SW will be the only state in Australia with no Government safety net for people with disability.鈥
鈥淥n the Central Coast alone, that will impact on 2,735 clients.鈥
鈥淭his is a Government that washes its hands of all social responsibility whether it鈥檚 starving the world class TAFE system of funds while throwing millions at dodgy private providers or pushing vulnerable kids into a non-Government Out of Home Care system and then reading the horror stories in the media.鈥
The NSW Government employs almost 10% of all workers in the Central Coast and is by far the largest employer in the region.