Mae adroddiad Archwilydd Cyffredinol Cymru, sy'n cael ei gyhoeddi heddiw, yn rhybuddio y bydd £1.5 biliwn yn llai ar gael ar gyfer gwasanaethau cyhoeddus am dair blynedd o fis Ebrill 2011 ymlaen.
Mae hyn yn mynd i greu sefyllfa o argyfwng nid yn unig i wasanaethau a ddarperir gan Gynghorau ond hefyd gan yr awdurdodau iechyd a'r gwasanaethau brys.
Os bu i chi erioed fod angen tystiolaeth pa mor ddrwg ydi'r sefyllfa araiannol yn y wlad yma, yna dyma ydi o.
Be mae Gordon Brown a'i griw yn gwneud? Defnyddio'n arian NI i dalu am fethianau'r banciau. A be mae'r diawliaid di-egwyddor yn y banciau yn neud? Defnyddio'r arian hynny i dalu taliadau bonws anferth iddyn nhw eu hunain am eu methiant!
Mae rhywbeth mawr o'i le gyfeillion a gorau po gyntaf wneith rhywun ar y lefel uchaf o lywodraeth fagu chydig o geilliau a dweud "digon yw digon" a cymryd yr arian yn ol a'i fuddsoddi mewn gwasanaethau cyheoddus rheng flaen.
Public services in Wales are facing cuts that will cause "considerable pain", according to an official report.
Gillian Body, the auditor general for Wales, said the NHS, councils and the police may need to cut staff hours and encourage part-time working in order to save in excess of £1.5bn from April 2011 onwards.
This will undoubtedly lead to a crisis situation within the public sector in Wales.
If ever you needed proof of how bad the financial situation of this country is by now, then this is it!
What's Gordon Brown and his crew doing about it? Using OUR money to bail out the banks after their culture of gambling failed so badly. And what are the unscrupilous scumbags in the banks doin? Using that money to pay themselves massive bonuses for their failiour!
Something is so very wrong about all of this and as soon as someone at the highest level of Govrnment has the balls to say stop this nonsense and takes the money back to invest in frontline public services, the better I say.
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Accountability for Standards in Public Life and Our Money
The Auditor General for Wales does not tell the full story.
Under the Local Government Act 2000, the Welsh Audit Office could intervene on issues of value for money in all public spending for our services. However, the power to intervene and take over a Higher Education Institution, or HEI as Universities are known was removed by the Public Audit (WALES) Act 2004. The WAO has confirmed that unlike local councils the public has no right of complaint whatsoever.
The duty of ensuring value for our money is undertaken by an unaccountable Quango the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales known as HEFCW. It has a statutory duty under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 to ensure standards in higher education. This task is undertaken by the Quality Assurance Agency known as the QAA, which unlike the schools and colleges regulators OFSTED and ESTYN it has no statutory duties or powers. They are simply contractors exempt from the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and accountability to the Public Services Ombudsman.
They are accountable to HEFCW and Higher Education Wales known as HEW, which is an association of Welsh Universities. The QAA is also a schedule 1 registered charity whose primary duty is to its vulnerable beneficiaries namely students. As the QAA cannot investigate any claim of misconduct against HEFCW we believe this an unacceptable conflict of interest that puts vulnerable students at risk.
Student complaints are barred from the courts unless they apply to consumer law. Under the Higher Education Act 2004 the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education known as the OIA replaced the Visitor to act as a judge on student complaints. However, there is growing discontent with the OIA, as it does not make any inquiry into issues of any complexity.
We need our own Welsh OIA that has the power to investigate as well as adjudicate on student complaints. We also need to support students through what is a traumatic complaints process which in some cases has intimidating threats of action being taken against students who are considered to be making malicious accusations!
We have a right to know what went wrong at the University of Wales Lampeter and why nobody was held to account for this financial disaster that cost us many millions of pounds. We also have a right to know why HEFCW deliberately withheld a disturbing report by Haines Watts Corporate Finance on Lampeter, when merger talks were going on with Trinity University College.
If this happened in our schools or hospitals there would be an outcry. So why should they or we in effect pay for this fiasco when those responsible walk off with a fat pension, while staff lose their jobs, students are put at risk, and we the taxpaying serfs are banned from having any right of consultation or complaint.
Jonathan Morgan AM for Cardiff North, who is also Chair of the Public Accounts committee for the National Assembly for Wales is powerless to intervene he said: The Audit (Public Accounts) Committee doesn?t initiate inquiries so I am afraid that there is little that I can do with the information you have sent me.
Meanwhile, because of deregulation this financial fiasco carries on with government powerless to intervene.
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