Posts Tagged ‘cuts’
Cuts to Hackney care budget could ‘harm’ older people warn charities
Social care has already been hit hard by the Coalition Government’s spending squeeze and plans for more cuts risk making life intolerable for many needy pensioners
Read MoreAxe falls on Hackney police teams
Safer Neighbourhoods officers cut as many wards share sergeants
Read MoreLeader: Don’t cut Hackney youth cash
Moves to slash spending on young people make no sense at this volatile time
Read MoreHackney riots: why here? why now?
What were the reasons for this week’s violent disturbances in the borough?
Read MoreUnion wins council rethink over Hackney libraries cuts
Campaigners gain concessions as town bosses shy away from forced redundancies in library services shake-up
Read MoreHackney Unison slams council’s ‘sham’ library cuts consultation
The union claims Town Hall bosses have already made up their minds about the future of the borough’s library services
Read MoreHackney parks posts to be axed
User groups and local residents voice concern over the future wellbeing of the borough’s green spaces as leaked report proposes large-scale changes
Read MoreCuts: time to sow, not prune
We need to invest in ‘green growth’ and beware of false economies, says Hackney Friends of the Earth
Read MoreProtesters criticise Hackney Council over cuts budget
Hackney councillors are accused of taking the easy option and making life harder for residents
Read MoreProtestors occupy Hackney Town Hall
Council budget frustration sparks direct action by anti-cuts campaigners
Read MoreLabour councillors call on Hackney Council to refuse cuts budget
The Town Hall is setting its finances for the coming year in the face of calls to reject government-enforced reductions
Read MoreHackney Alliance protest against council cuts
5.30pm Wednesday 2 March 2011, outside Hackney Town Hall
Read MoreProtesters march through Hackney against public spending cuts
Hundreds demonstrated on Saturday over government’s decision to reduce the grant it provides to local councils
Read MoreLaw experts urge Hackney Council to join campaign to fight legal aid cuts
Councillors are warned that the borough’s Citizens Advice Bureau and Community Law Centre will be hit hard by government proposals to reduce funding
Read MoreInterview: Ken Livingstone
The Labour party’s candidate for London mayor talks budgets, students, crime and the Olympics
Read MoreHackney must unite against government cuts
A local councillor’s view on what the cuts will mean for local residents
Read MoreHackney Council faces ‘difficult decisions’ as cuts loom
Slashing on Town Hall’s spending power is condemned by local councillors
Read MoreKen Livingstone joins Hackney anti EMA cuts demonstration
Students march from BSix sixth form college to the Town Hall to protest cuts to Educational Maintenance Allowances
Read MoreCouncil opposes ‘unnecessary cuts’
Gesture politics alive and well as emergency motion passes
Read MoreCuts could ‘create ghettos’
Government axe could cost Council up to £80m by 2014
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