Budget cuts are hitting children in Burngreave the hardest, and local people have been campaigning hard to change the Council’s mind on cuts to childcare, Study Support, Pitsmoor Adventure Playground and Verdon Recreation Centre.
Residents campaign against cuts to children's services
- Residents fight to save the playground and Verdon Rec
- Local residents and children have been campaigning against Council proposals to cut staff at Pitsmoor Adventure Playground and Verdon Recreation Centre.
- Keep Pitsmoor Adventure Playground as it is
- I am very concerned about the future of the Pitsmoor Adventure Playground. We (son and parents) have been using the playground and have witnessed how popular it is.
- Disgust at Playground Closure
- We are writing to express our utter disgust at the city council’s decision to effectively close Pitsmoor Adventure Playground.
- Council cuts funding to study support
- Burngreave’s four study support groups face an uncertain future after the Council failed to find any resources to help them from April.
- Council cuts nurseries
- On 27th February the Council decided to go ahead with proposals to cut funding from 20 early years providers – mainly community nurseries operating in some of the most deprived areas in the city.
- Editorial: Children take the full force of the cuts
- Cuts in Sheffield City Council’s budget are being felt the hardest here in Burngreave. Child poverty figures show 3,077 children live in poverty in Burngreave, the 10th worst of the 9,434 wards in the entire country.
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