Investing in vital local services
Councils educate young people, provide care and support services to people, connect communities and make our neighbourhoods better places to live. Green Councillors will continue to fight to protect and improve these vital services.
Green impact
Since 2017, your Scottish Green councillors have:
- Protected teacher and learning support staff numbers to keep class sizes down.
- Supported the expansion of universal free school meals to 40,000 children
- Secured a recommended 10% increase to allowances for foster and kinship carers, which had been frozen for a decade
- Secured funding for a free public transport pilot and ensured 40km of Spaces for People cycle routes were made permanent.
- Secured £5m funding for targeted anti-poverty work, helping people with rising living costs