1. Pamela Dooley Vice Chairperson ICTU NI Committee and UNISON

2. Equality and Rights under greatest threat at time of recession Commitments in Good Friday Agreement largely ignored by politicians Draft budget constitutes a real threat to the socio economic rights of the people

3.  UK Emergency Budget June 2010 £8bn impact in tax rises and welfare cuts  Further UK cuts to Welfare benefits: £8bn becomes £16bn  UK Cuts to NI Block Grant:  £4bn ▪ Impact - 75% women

4.  Women  Children  Everyone living in poverty  The low paid  Pensioners  Working class people in general

5. Long term unemployment/ increasing job loss Failed economic strategy Cuts in public services increase jobs loss Attack on Benefits system and pay and conditions Employment initiatives under threat Trade Union Rights Under Threat

6. Over 4 years £2.3m funding gap ISSUES NOT ADDRESSED Health Outcomes InequalitiesReal need Community / prevention

7.  Restricted access to community care  Closures of beds  Hospital beds will get blocked  Waiting lists will extend, both for hospital and community services  Reduction in grants to the voluntary sector  No new patients on high cost drugs  Jobs will be lost – c.4,000  A moratorium in employment  Cash control on necessary agency and locum spend leading to unplanned closure  New buildings currently in construction left unopened  Co payments and Greater contributions from service users.

8.  Over 4 years £300m funding gap  Capital 30% shortfall ISSUES NOT ADDRESSED  Attainment Outcomes  Existing Inequalities  Real need

9. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION  Promise of some growth in Free Meals, Early Years BUT  School meals budget cut by 6%  School Budget Cut (2014-2015 - 15%)  LMS issue  Home to School Transport cut  Capacity Building (4.8m) cut  Job loss

10. DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE ARTS AND LEISURE  Library Closures (x10)  15-20% reduction opening hours (redundancies)  Recruitment freeze  Book Stock (0.29!)

11. Department of Employment  Student loans  Education Maintenance Allowance Universities and Colleges  Major cuts in services and job

12.  ‘Flat Cash’  Little or no growth in public housing  Waiting list increase  Regeneration initiatives under threat

13.  Obscene cuts to the welfare benefits system  Introduction of charging for services  Universal Benefit a threat to individual rights

14.  Pay Freezes  Pay Cuts  Attacks on agreed conditions  ‘Sweating’ the workforce  Attacking the benefits system

15.  UK and NI governments side-stepping legal obligations on equality and human rights  Legal challenges in UK winning at operational level if not at Government level  Trades unions taking industrial action  Unions and communities mobilising, marching, lobbying and taking direct action  A sustained programme of strategic action on all front can bring about change