Central Bedfordshire Council's £12m cuts are announced
More than 100 jobs are expected to go at Central Befordshire Council as £12m is cut from its 2011-12 budget. Money-saving changes will include more volunteers for youth services, an end to the mobile library and switching off street lights. The council executive said it would try to save money through becoming more efficient.
Its the little things that Central Beds says it will cut that are most miserly. Did I get it right that there will be no disposable bags for food waste? Homework clubs are being hit and the mobile library service will be sitting on bricks in the future. But there is plenty of other stuff involving schools and social care. This is on top of the totally over-the-top comprehensive spending review. All the way through there are recurrent expressions 'statutory minimum service' and the 'truly vulnerable'. I dread to think what a tiny constituency the 'truly vulnerable' are but clearly there is a wider circle of needy, and marginalised people who will now not make the cut and are expected to help George O with his deficit reduction plans. Don't grow old, get sick, be young or need a lift.
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