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BREAKING NEWS: County council to cut £33m of services
NOTTS County Council chiefs plan to slash £33m from major services, the Guardian can reveal.
A leaked report shows all departments will be forced to make cuts, which include selling off all 13 residential care homes, axing 410 jobs and closing day care centres.
Other proposed measures include ending the Weeks of Action initiative to save 410,000, cutting 5m to children's services and shutting four daycare centres across the county.
It has been stressed this will not affect plans for the new community hub on Memorial Avenue.
The council says it has to save 83m during the next three years.
Chief executive Mick Burrows insisted the the cuts were 'just proposals' at this stage and said people will have the opportunity to have their views heard until 22nd January 2010.
"Like every other council in the country, we face a huge challenge - how to provide good quality services and respond to the ever-growing demands for social care, while dealing at the same time with the worst recession in a generation," he said.
"We have done what we can to save money without directly affecting our service users. Although we are saving 33m, we will be investing an extra 31.1m of this saving directly back into caring for the most vulnerable people in Notts next year."
Coun Alan Rhodes, leader of the Labour opposition and Worksop county councillor, said the cuts news was 'a catastrophe'.
"This is totally unecessary and terrible news for anyone employed by the county council or who receives services from the authority," he said.
"Thirteen residential care homes are to be sold off over the next two years, which means James Hince Court and Westwood Care Home will be left very vulnerable."
"Manton has just enjoyed a very positive Week of Action but the council will be ending this initiative, which the most disadvantaged communities benefit from."
"This is an absolute catastrophe and the Labour group at County Hall will be doing everything in its powers to resist these changes."
A consultation is being launched to seek views on the proposed changes.
Visit www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/budgetforthefuture or write to Budget Consultation, NCC, Freepost NG428, Nottingham NG2 1BR
Alternatively find out more about how to respond by calling 08449 808 080.
For the full story read next Friday's Guardian.
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