The SNP group in South Lanarkshire are saddened to learn of the passing of Councillor Lesley McDonald.
Our thoughts and condolences are with Lesley’s family and friends and the entire Labour group who have lost a dear colleague.
We ensured the budget included:
❌ The rejection of harmful cuts
🧑🏫 Investment in Classrooms
📚 ASN support
♻️ Investment in grass cutting, litter and waste collection
📈 Focus on economic development
🎉 A culture strategy including a galas and festivals fund
🏘️ Community engagement support
🟡 The SNP worked hard to make sure the budget in South Lanarkshire reflected your priorities.
📺 Watch our Leader Cllr Maureen Chalmers’ speech on what the SNP has achieved for you in the budget 👇
COMMUNITIES
🎉 A new Galas & Festivals Fund, replacing existing spend for Christmas light switch ons, gala days, etc. Expanding the communities & areas able to benefit.
📖 Funding for local communities to celebrate heritage and culture, recognising the role of our libraries and museums.
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NATURE & ENVIRONMENT
🛣️ Record investment of £12million in our environment, open spaces & roads-related infrastructure.
🌳 Permanent additional frontline staff to make South Lan look, feel and be better for people and nature.
🦌 Country park master plans for Chatelherault & Calderglen.
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THIRD SECTOR SUPPORT
🛑 Cancelling cuts and reinstating previous levels of financial support for Citizens Advice Bureaux.
🗣️ Additional, permanent, multi-year investment for the wider third sector. Making South Lanarkshire the best place in Scotland for voluntary organisations to operate.
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OUR LOCAL ECONOMY
📊 Expanded business support grants, quadrupling the available funding.
🏭 Funding for businesses to upgrade and decarbonise existing premises.
💼 Development of commercial spaces to attract industry to South Lanarkshire, driving growth and generating revenue.
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CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE
🏊♀️ Free swimming at SLLC pools for under 16s, all year round.
🏠 Investment in accommodation to enable care-experienced young people to live independently, helping deliver on The Promise.
🏀 Improving/replacing multi-use games areas (MUGAs) to bring them back into use.
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EDUCATION
💷 Additional school budget, devolved to Head Teachers. Trusting school management teams to know best what pupils need.
🖥️ Funding to modernise IT equipment across our school estate.
♿️ Improving & adapting our ASN school estate to meet pupil mobility, personal care & sensory needs.
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"A BUDGET FOR SOUTH LANARKSHIRE" over a picture of SLC HQ. Yellow banner at the bottom with the SNP logo and "ON YOUR SIDE".
Labour run a minority Administration in South Lanarkshire Council. This means they have to work with others to pass a budget.
Today, working cross-party, we have co-presented a budget that delivers on SNP priorities.
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💼 It's budget day in South Lanarkshire!
🔗 Watch live at 10am as your SNP Group co-present a budget that all of South Lanarkshire can be proud of.
Tomorrow, the South Lanarkshire SNP Group will co-present a budget that:
— Protects vital services
— Invests in people, communities, and local economy
— Ensures the Council's financial viability
Watch live @ 10am: youtu.be/t8y0FMJ8IKQ
Thanks to a record-breaking budget settlement from the SNP Scottish Government, proposed cuts can be rejected and investments can be made in our schools, our communities and the growth of our local economy.
South Lanarkshire Council's annual budget setting process is almost complete and your SNP Councillors have been working hard with other parties over the past few months to deliver on the priorities that matter to you.
TEXT: “SAFE WALKING ROUTES TO SCHOOL” in front of image of walking path Text at bottom: “SNP WORKING FOR SOUTH LANARKSHIRE”
🚸 Tomorrow, the SNP will be proposing a motion on the maintenance of ‘safe walking routes’ to school.
❌ Parents carers and young people continue to have concerns over the condition of walking routes to school.
🚧 The motion would help ensure that these routes are regularly maintained and repaired.
Packed agenda full of excellent motions from @snpsouthlan.bsky.social
Tomorrow, the SNP will be proposing six motions to a meeting of the Council:
🚸 Safe walking routes to school
🏡 Downsizing incentive scheme
❤️ Defibrillators
📣 Petitions
🤗 Local Authority of Sanctuary
🧡 Against Gender Based Violence
Watch live from 10am tomorrow 👇
www.youtube.com/live/LeARGLP...
Pleased that @rossclarksnp.bsky.social and I got this amendment passed.
The UK Gov is trampling over Scotland’s devolution settlement, and trampling over the work local government's being doing to empower our communities.
This top-down nonsense doesn't wash with folk anymore, and it's not on 🥀
❌ There has been no meaningful engagement with the Scottish Government or COSLA.
👎 It shortchanges Scotland and it shortchanges South Lanarkshire.
🏴 We have more ambition for Scotland and expect better for South Lanarkshire.
Labour’s Pride in Place programme is an attempt to bypass devolution.
The SNP passed an amendment expressing serious concerns regarding:
❌ The lack of engagement with councils
❌ Restrictive criteria
❌ The removal of local decision-making and disregard for existing community planning structures
⚖️ The Labour administration have completely abdicated their responsibilities.
👨👨👦👦 The SNP will always stand by the parents, carers and pupils of South Lanarkshire in the face of a dismissive Labour administration that continuously ignores the concerns of our communities.
⚠️ The Labour Leader appeared to accept that pupils may still be at risk.
📃 But his amendment removed reference to the “concerns of parents, carers and young people” and rejected a SLC-specific review of the guidance.
🫴 Instead, it handed the decision to an obscure external body that rarely meets.
🚌 The guidance used to assess ‘safe’ walking routes to school is over 20yrs old and not fit for purpose — it doesn't even require a pavement.
❌ Labour have used that document to remove school transport from over 8,000 kids.
🟡 Today we brought a motion requesting a local review.
🥀 They blocked it.
The latest school transport update 🚌👇
We have tried to get these safe walking route guidelines reviewed before, but have been denied because the process was ongoing.
Now these ridiculous bus cuts have been implemented, that excuse has gone. Follow the link to watch Wednesday's Full Council live.
The SNP in South Lanarkshire requested on multiple occasions that the guidance be reviewed, but Labour were not interested in listening to the concerns of parents and pupils.
On Wednesday, we will force a standalone vote.
CHILDREN’S ROAD SAFETY Background: Child crossing road with parent SNP WORKNG FOR SOUTH LANARKSHIRE
🚌 After cutting school transport from thousands of pupils, the Labour council used road safety guidance that hadn’t been updated since 2004 to assess safe walking routes.
🚸 On Wednesday, the SNP Group will be demanding that this outdated guidance be reviewed with pupil safety as the priority.
🚮 The SNP worked with the Scottish Greens to bring forward and second an amendment to create a ‘Cleaning up South Lanarkshire Fund’ to tackle litter and fly-tipping.
❌ Labour voted this down
📺 Watch SNP Depute Leader Councillor Ross Clark speak about the importance of cleaning up our streets.
🍎 The SNP Scottish Government are expanding free school meals in South Lanarkshire
🟡 SNP Councillor John Anderson welcomed this crucial investment in our mission to end child poverty.
❌ He called out Labour’s refusal to scrap the cruel two child cap but was shut down by the administration.
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And, this is despite borrowing £7.2million last year, specifically for Roads, which with the £12million in interest will actually cost the Council/South Lanarkshire residents, £19.2million 😡
“ROADS GET WORSE UNDER LABOUR” infront of a picture of potholes on a road with a red overlay “SNP *clootie* WORKING FOR SOUTH LANARKSHIRE” at the bottom with a yellow background
⛔️ The condition of Roads in South Lanarkshire has worsened every year since Labour took office.
🚧 Council figures show that the percentage of the road network that should be considered for maintenance is continuing to increase.
Vote Labour 👉 Get Potholes
