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£11 Million hole in council budget anticipated
Posted on January 8, 2021January 15, 2021

£11 Million hole in council budget anticipated

Members of the local authority’s Policy and Co-ordination Committee heard on Thursday (7th) that in spite of a downwar...
Further cuts to education and children’s services in Fife Council’s 2020/21 budget
Posted on March 2, 2020March 26, 2020

Further cuts to education and children’s services in Fife Council’s 2020/21 budget

Cuts of over £3.5 million across education and children’s services were approved by Fife Council at its meeting on Ma...
Families First St Andrews faces continued funding uncertainty
Posted on May 18, 2019June 1, 2019

Families First St Andrews faces continued funding uncertainty

QV has previously reported on the precarious funding situation for the St Andrews  branch of Families First which was p...
Council Leaders ask for help in solving Fife’s health and social care crisis
Posted on May 11, 2019May 30, 2019

Council Leaders ask for help in solving Fife’s health and social care crisis

Fife Council co-leaders David Ross and David Alexander have requested a meeting with the Health Secretary, Jean Freeman,...
Budget cuts lead to huge backlog in Fife food hygiene inspections
Posted on April 24, 2019May 18, 2019

Budget cuts lead to huge backlog in Fife food hygiene inspections

Concerns have been raised over food safety in Fife after more than half of the inspections of the kingdom’s 4000 food ...
Fife’s Health and Social Care budget cut by £8.4M
Posted on March 30, 2019May 2, 2019

Fife’s Health and Social Care budget cut by £8.4M

The region’s Integrated Joint Board (IJB) meeting on Thursday was asked to approve a £8.8 million in savings to addre...
Fife education budget to take a £1.49m hit in 2019/20
Posted on February 22, 2019February 24, 2019

Fife education budget to take a £1.49m hit in 2019/20

Addressing a projected £9.1m shortfall in the coming financial year, Fife Council has voted to increase Council Tax by ...
Waid Academy the latest to reduce the length of its school week
Posted on January 30, 2019January 31, 2019

Waid Academy the latest to reduce the length of its school week

Waid Academy, which is facing a £52,000 budget cut, is considering a proposal to cut the length of its school week to m...
Threat to music tuition in Fife Schools
Posted on January 18, 2019January 24, 2019

Threat to music tuition in Fife Schools

Members of the Education Institute of Scotland (EIS) have voiced concern at proposals from Fife Council's Education Serv...

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    Posted on January 15, 2021January 15, 2021

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    Posted on January 8, 2021January 15, 2021

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    £11 Million hole in council budget anticipated

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    Posted on January 1, 2021

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Local Representation

St Andrews is represented by the following elected members, both locally and nationally:

Councillors

  1. Jane Ann Liston (Lib Dem)
  2. Dominic Nolan (Con)
  3. Brian Thomson (Lab)
  4. Ann Verner (SNP)

MSPs

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