West Lothian Council leader, Lawrence Fitzpatrick has stressed that the responsibility for the decision to transfer West Lothian Care Homes to the voluntary or private sector rests with the SNP Government.
He said he wrote to the First Minister at the end of March pressing him to allocate more funding to West Lothian IJB only to receive a “negative response”. He said: “We are on the front fighting for local people and our communities, despite 16 years of £150m of Scottish Government underfunding whose disastrous priorities have seen billions wasted.
