People in Sheffield tell us what they thought of the first Labour budget in 14 years

The Star, Sheffield

There is a lot to unpack from the budget delivered by Rachel Reeves in October.  The Star hit the streets of Sheffield to ask members of the public what they thought of some of the announcements made by the chancellor.

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00:00To kind of I guess then maybe go on to your education background then and one thing that

00:05you mentioned of course is people people from backgrounds where they may need more support.

00:08One of the things that the government did announce yesterday was quite a large boost

00:11in funding for SENCO provision. Okay yeah. And you know what would your what would your reaction to

00:16that kind of a policy be? 100% I'm 100% with that and it definitely needs sorting. There's a lack

00:23of it. This city's quite strong this city's quite strong for SENCO. We have three possibly four

00:29specialist schools across the city and but on a ground level I think there needs to be more

00:35in in schools in mainstream schools as well because people unfortunately dare I say it and

00:40I don't you know I'm not very hesitant to say either they are slipping through the net students

00:44are slipping through the net and then they grow up later on in life and they're thinking well if

00:48I had that provision back then then it might have helped me now and that's certainly generational

00:53as well I think because obviously personally from a family standpoint you know I've got my

00:59mum and my dad that say to me all the time oh um it's so much easier so much accessible for us to

01:04get things now the thing is they didn't have that support in schools back then it was just kind of

01:08well you're a naughty kid so you carry on with it so it's very very important to me it's very

01:12close to my heart for that kind of thing so. So in the budget obviously they've um well they

01:17announced it when in advance of the budget but part of that was removing the winter fuel allowance

01:21and you've you told us how that's affected your husband. Well it will because my husband he's got

01:25several um problems and I spend an awful lot of money on gas and electric and until recently

01:32I was spending £210.94 a month on gas and electric and I'm 83 and as you can see

01:41I have mobility problems and I'm forever washing and ironing

01:46and cooking and cleaning looking after him so you know they're picking on their own people.

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