{"id":696493,"date":"2026-01-15T00:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/696493\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T00:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:20:11","slug":"hundreds-of-jobs-in-glasgow-at-risk-as-workers-given-90-day-redundancy-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/696493\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of jobs in Glasgow at risk as workers given 90-day redundancy notice"},"content":{"rendered":"

HUNDREDS of jobs in Glasgow are understood to be at risk after workers were given 90-day redundancy notices following \u201cdevastating\u201d funding cuts.<\/p>\n

It comes after Labour introduced the new Local Growth Fund (LGF) on Thursday. <\/p>\n

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Hundreds of jobs across Glasgow are currently at riskCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander announced Labour\u2019s Local Growth FundCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

This replaced the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) \u2013 introduced by the Tories after Brexit<\/a> to replace EU funds, The Herald<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

And it provided local authorities funding for communities, places, businesses, people and skills.<\/p>\n

But this is due to end on March 31, and replaced with the Local Growth Fund. <\/p>\n

Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander announced last Thursday that the UK Government would invest \u00a3140million in five Scottish regions to support economic growth. <\/p>\n

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Edinburgh<\/a> will receive \u00a337.8million, Tay Cities \u00a319.5million, Ayrshire<\/a> \u00a311.8million and Forth Valley \u00a39.8million.<\/p>\n

The Glasgow<\/a> City Region is made up of eight councils<\/a> Glasgow City, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire<\/a>, Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire, West Dunbartonshire.<\/p>\n

The region will receive \u00a360.9million over three years.<\/p>\n

But this is around a third less compared to the \u00a391million it received through UKSPF over the previous three-year period.<\/p>\n

And only around 30 per cent of the funding can be spent on revenue, which includes the day-to-day funding used to pay staff and deliver services. <\/p>\n

An assessment by the Industrial Communities Alliance (ICA) states that there will be \u201cmajor knock-on consequences for jobs\u201d in the third sector.<\/p>\n

The report added: \u201cBased on data for a sample of local authorities, the ICA National Secretariat estimates that on average every \u00a31m of UKSPF spending directly supports seven jobs in local authorities plus additional jobs in Third Sector organisations delivering UKSPF-funded services. <\/p>\n

\u201cOn that basis: Around 530 jobs in Scottish local authorities are presently directly supported by UKSPF funding.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 50 per cent reduction in funding for Scotland\u2019s Local Growth Fund by 2028-29 and the shift to capital spending puts more than half these jobs at risk, beginning in April this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glasgow City Council<\/a> leader Susan Aitken has already written to Douglas Alexander.<\/p>\n

Ms Aitken warned that there are \u201cdevastating cuts coming\u201d unless the UK Government \u201cintends to provide replacement revenue funding\u201d.<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cThe delay in the announcement means that we are already into the 90-day notice period for staff who are employed in organisations currently funded through SPF and now facing a massive cut.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken warned there are \u201cdevastating\u201d cuts comingCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

The Glasgow City Region will receive \u00a360.9million over three yearsCredit: Alamy<\/p>\n

A Scottish Labour<\/a> spokesperson told The Herald: \u201cThe blame for Scotland\u2019s local government funding crises lies firmly at the SNP-led Scottish Government\u2019s door. <\/p>\n

\u201cSusan Aitken should be asking John Swinney<\/a> why the SNP-led Scottish Government has over decades centralised powers while cutting funding levels for Scottish local government.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is simply wrong to suggest that the UK Government is cutting funding for the Glasgow City Region. <\/p>\n

\u201cTaken together our package of four new local growth programmes will invest up to \u00a3103m in Glasgow City Region over the next three years, this is up to \u00a315m more than under the UKSPF levels in 2025\/26.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn top of this the UK Government is also investing hundreds of millions into the region through the Investment Zone, local regeneration, and innovation partnership programmes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to increased direct funding for local authorities in England the Scottish Government will receive an additional \u00a3163m over the next three years. Yet since 2013 the SNP have made \u00a37.8 billion of cuts to core local government funding. The question for the First Minister is \u2018Where\u2019s the money gone John?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HUNDREDS of jobs in Glasgow are understood to be at risk after workers were given 90-day redundancy notices…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,897,528,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-696493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-jobs","12":"tag-labour-party","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115896256203272373","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}