{"id":4984,"date":"2023-06-28T09:40:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T09:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/?p=4984"},"modified":"2023-07-26T08:44:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T08:44:41","slug":"debt-hit-council-delays-spending-da-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/debt-hit-council-delays-spending-da-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Debt-hit council delays spending DA funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thurrock Council held up using \u00a3490,000 allocated to help victims-survivors of domestic abuse, according to an update on domestic abuse and violence against women and girls, given to the unitary authority\u2019s scrutiny committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of work we could do when we know there is a lot of people sleeping rough because of domestic violence and we are carrying forward \u00a3490,000,\u201d the BBC quoted councillor Cathy Kent as saying at a committee meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant director of housing Ewelina Sorbjan said the funding is ring-fenced for safe accommodation, but she accepted it should have been spent better and a lot quicker. She added: \u201cThere is a lot more spend allocated for this year and has actually been spent and part of that is the cost of running a refuge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thurrock Council has around \u00a31.5bn of debt after borrowing money, mainly from other councils, largely to invest in financial bonds linked to solar energy farms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thurrock Council held up using \u00a3490,000 allocated to help victims-survivors of domestic abuse, according to an update on domestic abuse and violence against women and girls, given to the unitary authority\u2019s scrutiny committee. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of work we could do when we know there is a lot of people sleeping rough because of domestic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4986,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984\/revisions\/4986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}