{"id":22183,"date":"2019-01-25T17:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T17:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=22183"},"modified":"2019-01-25T17:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T17:22:27","slug":"cardiff-council-reject-government-fire-service-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/cardiff-council-reject-government-fire-service-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff Council reject government fire service reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The City Council say proposals to reduce the number of councillors on Fire and Rescue Authorities across Wales will lead to a democratic deficit.<\/strong><!--more--><br \/>\nAt the moment Cardiff Council has five councillors on the South Wales Fire and Rescue Authority. But under Welsh government plans that would be cut to one.<br \/>\nSimilar cuts would affect other local authorities around the country.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s part of wider plans to change the way the services are funded and managed by local authorities.<br \/>\nBut Cardiff Council say they won&#8217;t support the cut in councillor members.<br \/>\nThe council say &#8220;This reform would&#8230; represent a reduction in the Council\u2019s proportional membership of the FRA from 21% to 10%, when the Council currently contributes 24% of funding contributions for the FRA.<br \/>\n&#8220;Cardiff Council would not support this proposal and is very concerned that this proposal would represent a shift away from the current proportional representation (on both population and funding) and would therefore represent an erosion of the Council\u2019s \u2013 and the people of Cardiff\u2019s \u2013 democratic representation on the South Wales FRA.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Liberal Democrat Councillor for Pentwyn, Dan Naughton, says these reforms would not just be a loss for Cardiff, but all large authorities.<br \/>\n&#8220;Obviously Cardiff&#8217;s population is bigger, so there would still be a bigger share of funds collected from Cardiff.<br \/>\n&#8220;And it&#8217;s not just Cardiff, it&#8217;s RCT and other large authorities who would have less of a say, so all the large authorities would lose the voice they have right now.&#8221;<br \/>\nMembers of the public have until February 5th to respond to the reforms.<br \/>\nThe Welsh government has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City Council say proposals to reduce the number of councillors on Fire and Rescue Authorities across Wales will lead to a democratic deficit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6,18],"tags":[21,14,38,135,363,34,104],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-22183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-slider-story","tag-cardiff","tag-cardiff-city-council","tag-cardiff-council","tag-council","tag-south-wales-fire","tag-wales","tag-welsh-government"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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