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Young People Bear Brunt as Councils Reveal Cuts to Services
01 April 2011
Cuts to council-run services will bring dramatic reductions in children's services, libraries and youth clubs and a new wave of privatisation for frontline services, the most comprehensive survey so far of town halls will reveal today.
It shows the cuts, which will begin to really bite today as budgets for the 2011-2 financial year kick in, have been disproportionately targeted at the young. Youth clubs, play services and Sure Start centres are bearing the weight of above-average reductions.