{"id":332,"date":"2011-12-10T17:22:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T17:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/cuts-to-community-employment-schemes-will-have-significant-consequences-crowe\/"},"modified":"2011-12-10T17:22:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T17:22:30","slug":"cuts-to-community-employment-schemes-will-have-significant-consequences-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/cuts-to-community-employment-schemes-will-have-significant-consequences-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuts to Community Employment Schemes will have significant consequences &#8211; Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cuts to Community Employment Schemes will have significant consequences &#8211; <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD, Se\u00e1n <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> speaking at a rally outside Leinster House today said that cuts to  Community Employment Schemes (CES) announced in Budget 2012 will have  serious implications for people on the schemes and those communities who  depend on their services.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> said: \u201cCuts announced in this  week\u2019s budget will impact on schemes across the country and see local  community resource centres that assist thousands of people forced to  close their doors for good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese schemes are sponsored by voluntary boards of management and  running costs are covered from within the materials and training budget.  It is looking even more likely that the 2011 budget cuts will mean that  sponsoring a CE scheme is no longer viable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe information I have received suggests that the network of 24  Congress Resource Centres around the country could also see closures as a  result of these cuts.<\/p>\n<p>The centres &#8211; which are currently run with support from FAS &#8211; provide  advice on social welfare and work-related issues, along with training  programmes to some 500,000 people every year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also house many community and voluntary services that may also be forced to cease operating in the event of closures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks like we are faced with another government which seems  intent on cutting of the supports of some of our most vulnerable  citizens.<\/p>\n<p>There are approximately 22,000 people \u00a0availing of Community  Employment Schemes. Their training is provided to assist with basic  skills that will eventually lead to fulltime employment.<\/p>\n<p>Community Employment participants provide key services for the  unemployed and their families and much of this will be lost due to cuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuts to Community Employment Schemes will have significant consequences &#8211; Crowe Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe speaking at a rally outside Leinster House today said that cuts to Community Employment Schemes (CES) announced in Budget 2012 will have serious implications for people on the schemes and those communities who depend on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}