Richard Exell
Most Councils plan cuts in Sure Start and library services and one in seven plan to make it harder to get free adult social care a new survey has revealed. The Local Government Association’s 2011 “Budget Survey”, which is sent out to Directors of Finance in English councils found that 83 per cent were planning to make savings in their library services and 63 per cent in Sure Start (mainly by concentrating services on vulnerable families or neighbourhoods, effectively ending the vision of Sure Start as a service whose high standards would be guaranteed by the fact the middle classes also use it.) One in five expect services for young people to be hit harder than the average.
Alice Hood
Anjum Klair
