£500,000 cuts to youth services in Wiltshire reduced to £250,000
COUNCILLORS have today voted to cut £250,000 from Wiltshire youth service’s budget rather than the expected £500,000.
The Liberal Democrat group put forward an amendment to Wiltshire Council’s budget, voted on today at County Hall, that called for £100,000 savings on printed paperwork, an efficiency review of youth centre buildings that could shave off a further £125,000 and a cash injection of £25,000 from the councillors’ development fund.
The unitary authority’s original budget called for a £500,000 cut, which meant up to 140 staff redundancies and the closure of the county’s youth centres.
See this week’s Standard for a full report and reaction.
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