Community link workers

Rory Steel (inset), of GMB Scotland, has written to Glasgow's HSCP demanding an explanation as to why a funding offer from Scot Govt to help secure community link worker jobs had been rejected without consultation

Anger as Glasgow health bosses 'reject' Govt cash for link worker jobs
The row over controversial cuts to community links workers in Glasgow's poorest neighbourhoods has taken a new twist amid claims that the city's health and care bosses secretly rejected an offer by the Scottish Government to cover half the costs. Trade union GMB, which represents the GP surgery staff who are set to be made redundant unless the proposals are reversed, has demanded an explanation from Susanne Millar, the chief officer for the Glasgow health and social care partnership (GHSCP), over "unacceptable" decisions which it says "ride roughshod over local democracy".

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