PEOPLE in Glasgow still want the council to deliver vital services despite cutbacks and a feeling it is less efficient than before.

A new survey has found support for local authorities providing services from public libraries and bin collections to education and children’s services.

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The PwC ‘Local State We’re In’ report found there was little appetite in the city for private companies delivering council services and most were worried about the impact budget cuts would have on their community.

Glasgow City Council has said it will need to save £130m over two years which will result in 1500 jobs going on top of previous rounds of cut backs.

In the survey a majority of people said they were concerned the cuts and reduction in services would affect their community, while fewer thought it would affect them personally.

There has been warnings that councils could have to decide to not deliver some services as their budgets reduce and focus on core activities.

At the last election the Conservatives called for parents to be allowed to run primary schools and argued councils shouldn’t be the only option to run state schools.

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According to the survey people in Glasgow don’t agree with 51% stating the council should always provide primary schooling, and only 5% said the private sector should, if council’s didn’t.

The most support was for public libraries to be under council control with 53% backing the council opposed to 6% for the private sector and 13 for a not for profit organisation.

More than half (51%) wanted councils to always provide bin collections and 53% wanted lighting to be under the council control. Compared to 11% for the private sector for both.

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The lowest support for the council was on sport and leisure services and parking and recycling where support was between 30% and 40% but still the highest of all the options.

The survey in in line with the council’s own household survey which found the lowest satisfaction for roads and pavement repairs and the highest for libraries and museums.

Overall only 12% agreed the council was more efficient than five years ago with 45% in disagreement.

Frank McAveety, Leader of Glasgow City Council, said: “We know that people in Glasgow value their local services – and we are working hard to try and protect them from brutal year-on-year spending cuts from governments in Edinburgh and in London.

“Local government has had to become more efficient, in order to maintain the services people value and rely on despite having much less money to spend.

“We continue to be ambitious and we will to continue to innovate, through collaboration and partnership with our communities.”