Petition launched against council's proposed cuts to young people's services

As revealed by the Newbury Weekly News last week, the council needs to find savings of £297,000 from services to vulnerable young people in 2015/16.
It predicts savings of £129,000 from re-organising staffing and management, leaving £168,000 which needs to be found by cuts to frontline services, with some being scrapped altogether and others run at a reduced capacity.
The announcement comes just nine months after the council announced it would be reducing funding to vulnerable young people by £393,000 as a part of its two-year programme to find £11m in savings.
Now a petition, called ‘Stop Cuts to Youth Services in West Berkshire’ has been set up, which has already been signed by 25 people in the first week.
For more see this wek's Newbury Weekly News, out today.