bhcc cuts part b: children and young people
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Brighton & Hove budget cuts 2015-16
• Adult services: £3.25 million cut• Sport, culture, democratic involvement,
community grants: £1.24 million cut• Children’s services: £812,000 cut• Environment, development & housing: £3.5
million cut• Finance and benefits: £1.8 million cut• Public health: £372,000 cut
Youth work and play
• No funding at all for youth work in the city – youth centres will be forced to close
• Closure of the council’s Play Service
• Closure of four Children’s centres (West Hove, Cornerstone, City View, Hollingbury & Patcham)
• Cuts to open groups at other centres
• Funding cuts for Early Childhood Project & Brighton Unemployed Centre
Nurseries and childcare
• Review of council nurseries: Roundabout, Jump Start and Tarnerland – aim of review is to remove council subsidy
• Cut support to providers of out-of-school childcare
• Stop running Moulsecoomb summer playscheme
• No more cheaper playschemes and after school clubs for children on free school meals
• Cut support for childminders
Services for children in most need
• Cuts to social work posts in Fostering and Adoption service: reduced support for foster carers, more cuts to come after a review
• Cuts to respite care and speech therapy
• Cut to Sensory Need Service for deaf children under 2
• Cuts to home-school transport for disabled children