Are more cuts on the way for Wirral’s Council’s Leisure, Libraries, Culture and Parks Services?
A public meeting of Wirral Council’s Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee yesterday evening had an urgent item on a recent Libraries, Leisure and Culture Transformation Scrutiny Workshop held earlier this month.
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At the end of this post is a copy of the 6 page report that resulted from the workshop.
This Cabinet report and its associated appendix (written by consultants) describe what it is about in more detail.
If you read between the lines of the workshop report, there are a lot of words used in it that are code for cuts, here is a quote (Members means councillors) “Members agreed that one of the aims of this project was to reduce the Council investment in these services and members suggested that some services may have to be sold to residents at the price it costs the Council to deliver them”.