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Council chiefs have “raided” £7 million for child abuse victims to bump up their latest pay offer to striking workers.
Local authorities were so short of cash they struck a deal with the SNP-led Government to free up the money this year.
It follows criticism that victims have been enduring delays in getting payments from the state-backed redress scheme.
Labour MSP Monica Lennon said: “It’s really concerning that next year’s funding for Redress Scotland is being raided in this way to help settle a staff dispute.
“This decision is a damning indictment of the under-funding of councils by the Scottish Government and further evidence Humza Yousaf must intervene by providing more money to give staff the pay they deserve.”
Schools closed yesterday as part of a three day strike after councils and the trade union Unison failed to reach an agreement on pay.
The impasse has gone on for months and COSLA, which represents councils, tabled a “final” offer last week.
The new deal involved an extra £80m, but no breakdown was published at the time.
We can reveal £7m of the money was originally earmarked as the contribution by councils to Redress Scotland next year.
The redress scheme applies to abuse that happened when the survivor was in a care setting and under 18 and provides payments of up to £100,000.
Councils previously agreed £100m of funding over ten years to cover their share, but a paper by umbrella group Cosla says next year’s redress funding will be spent on the staff pay deal.
The minute said a meeting took place between Cosla and Deputy First Minister Shona Robison on finding extra cash for a new offer.
It stated that the DFM talked through the funding package based on “reconfiguring, reprofiling and reprioritising existing
Law enforcement officials in North Carolina are reportedly set to wrap their investigation into Jenelle Evans and David Eason “very soon.”
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