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Chairman resigns over cuts
Posted: 21 February 2016
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Chairman of the Torbay and Devon Safeguarding Adults Boards, Bob Spencer, has resigned from both boards following government cuts to the budgets which he feels could lead to “a serious incident or death”. Mr Spencer became head of the Torbay board in 2009 and the Devon board in 2013. He said that he had “serious concerns” about the “relentless budget cuts”, and stated that he feared that the most vulnerable people would be “hardest hit” by the cuts to the agencies. In his resignation letter, he stated: “with another four years of…
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