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Tory Surrey slammed by its own Neighbourhood Survey

The quality of services provided by Surrey County Council has been condemned in the results of its own Neighbourhood Survey.

Here is what the figures reveal:

* Only 37.2% of Surrey residents surveyed believe they are able to influence decisions that affect their neighbourhood.

* There has been a decline in the number of people believing that Surrey keeps them well informed about what they are doing from 41% to 51% in recent years.

* Only 38.7% believe that Surrey County Council provides value for money.

* Overall satisfaction with the way Surrey County Council runs its services is down from 66.8% in 2008/09 to 59.9% in 2009/10.

In the same document serious concern is acknowledged that despite the Government inspection body’s criticism of the County for very poor sex education in 2006, Surrey still has one of the highest rates of pregnancy among girls under 18 in the country. For the same group Surrey fails to adequately support young people in the age group living independently. There are a growing number of young people under 18 neither in work nor in education or training.

Add to this the thousands of pounds wasted by Surrey in the effort to support The Surrey Police Authority’s fatuous effort to overturn the Police’s attempt to remove the cap on their excess and Surrey residents can see they get a rum deal from their Tory lead authority.