This morning saw the release of  details of spending cuts of over £100 million being considered by the city’s Labour administration.

Service	2011-12	2012-13	Total
	£m	£m	£m
Corporate	6,150,000	7,125,000	13,275,000
Corporate Services/Chief Executives	457,300	2,952,400	3,409,700
Development and Regeneration Services	430,000	120,000	550,000
Education Services	17,534,200	15,913,800	33,448,000
Financial Services	660,000	617,500	1,277,500
Land and Environmental Services	1,220,000	1,050,000	2,270,000
Related Companies	3,900,000	3,705,000	7,605,000
Social Work Services	15,500,000	11,000,000	26,500,000
Technical	7,346,700	5,954,700	13,301,400
Total	53,198,200	48,438,400	101,636,600

The Herald newspaper lead with the headline that “Schools bear brunt of Glasgow council’s £90m budget cuts” and listing proposals under consideration including:

• the possible removal of the school breakfast provision.
• removing mobile creche facilities.
• reviewing early years provision
• cutting school psychologists
• increasing Secondary class sizes in Mathematics and English above the current limit of 20 pupils per class in S1/S2
• freezing teacher pay
• issuing 90 day notices to remove salary conservation from teachers
• moving school support staff from 52 week contracts to term time working contracts.

Also proposed but not recommended included the closure of Blairvadoch Outdoor Resource Centre, increasing the cost of school meals, cutting teacher numbers and scrapping nurture classes.

Options under consideration elsewhere include the Assisted House Gardens Maintenance scheme which provides a service for over 17,000 vulnerable citizens. Labour are now considering a proposal to introduce a new weekly charge for this service.

Full details of the budget options put forward by departments can be found at: Glasgow Budget options