CHILDREN in Liverpool are paying the price for the Coalition’s cuts in public services.
Twenty-four thousand children will be hit by the council’s plans to scrap school uniform grants (£20 for primary and £40 for secondary children) to cut £738,000 from its spending.
Funding for the the city’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) will be slashed by £200,000, while the teenage pregnancy service will lose almost half its funding, with its £176,000 budget slashed to £76,000.
Jobs are threatened at childrens centres and Liverpool’s Parent Partnership Service, which helps families with disabled children, will also see its budget slashed from £258,000 to just £150,000.
The city council also plans to close three libraries, reducing opening hours at 17 others and axing 76 jobs as well as charging for the Bulky Bobs household refuse collection service.
The cuts are part of a £16million package, which will be followed by another £4million cuts, with a further £60million of cuts to be found between 2013 and 2015.
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