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£1 million cut from third sector in Lancashire

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This afternoon (Thursday 18th January) the Conservative administration at Lancashire County Council continued its cuts to the third sector for a second cabinet meeting. Affecting many charities and community services working directly with local people on projects right across Lancashire. In order to reduce the conflict the Conservatives have introduced these cuts over two meetings. The facts is £1 million of funding has been taken from the community sector.

Councillor Erica Lewis, Deputy Shadow Cabinet Member for Finance said, “These cuts are a real blow to the third sector in Lancashire. At a time at which many community organisations are seeing demand for their services rise these cuts will reduce capacity.”

The briefing papers provided with these proposals highlight that these cuts may see increase demands on council services, and reduced programme delivery by community organisations.

Cllr Lewis said, “David Cameron used to argue that the community sector would step in to fill the gap created by cutting public services. Lancashire’s Conservative administration understanding of austerity seems to be that some services are just no longer required – the council won’t provide them, and the community won’t be supported to provide them either.”

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