Glasgow City Council has confirmed it is to reshape mental health services, a move which will mean a leading charity suffers a 40% cut in funding.
The proposal, which is expected to lead to 30 redundancies at Glasgow Association for Mental Health (GAMH) was confirmed by the council's executive Committee, which voted 10-6 to back the plans.
It had been forced to reconsider the issue after opposition councillors helped send it back for further scrutiny.
However the mental health service review, which includes asking GAMH to work more closely with GPs, was confirmed without any changes.
Malcolm Cunning, the council's executive member for social care, said unpicking the award to GAMH would have been 'nonsensical' as it was part of a much wider reshaping of services. He added: "Policies such as personalisation and self-directed support are leading to service redesign across the board. Inevitably that is going to cause some difficulties for some third sector organisations. I hope we can continue to work with them to mitigate that and make it as pain-free as possible.
"We have to make sure our services are targeted, cost efficient and as effective as possible."
However Councillor Susan Aitken, leader of the Opposition at the council, said: "Today's decision by the Labour administration to completely ignore the genuine concerns of GAMH, service users and UNISON over their punitive 40% cut to GAMH funding was breath-taking.
"Councillor Cunning singularly failed to address any of the substantive points made by UNISON regarding the impact on staff and service users.
"Despite a perfectly reasonable suggestion for a managed reduction which would assist our partners and the Council's budget, Labour simply bulldozed their plans through."
A spokesman for the council said: "
"Social Work's proposals emphasised the need for early intervention and prevention work that delivers better outcomes for individuals.
"Under those proposals GAMH is still envisaged as significant provider of mental health support in Glasgow.
"However, a duplication of work was identified during the service review and the original proposal sees GAMH working more closely with GPS, focusing on prevention rather than crisis intervention and delivering that preventative support more effectively."
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