Manchester Advice To Close In June!

Red Danny | 15.02.2011 12:26

Manchester City Council are closing their Welfare Rights Advice Centre.

Manchester Advice the City Council's free and confidential advice and information service available to all Manchester residents and employees of Manchester City Council, is to be closed in June. Around 100 council employees are likely to lose their jobs. A meeting is to be held at the Friends Meeting House tonight, Tuesday, 15th February.

Red Danny
e-mail: dpat47@hotmail.com

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Meeting Concerning The Closure of Manchester Advice Centre.

15.02.2011 14:52

Apologies. Since posting this earlier to day, I have now been told that the meeting regarding the closure of Manchester Advice Centre, will take place tomorrow(16/2/11) at the Friends` Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester, and will start at 6.00 pm. The Friends` Meeting House, can be contacted on 0161 834 5797 or by e-mail:

office@manchesterquakers.org.uk

Red Danny

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16.02.2011 09:32

Can we have update on this please? A report from the meeting?

Interested

I will be at the meeting and will be writing a report for IM

16.02.2011 12:40

I live and work in the Manchester area and will be going to this meeting, so I will do a report on it. This is unbelievable, to close down the entire advice service, with no exit strategy so I'm told. There is no way the voluntary sector can take all the clients with ongoing appeals. The voluntary organisations themselves have had cuts in their funding, both local authority funding and shortly they will probably lose some of their legal aid funding because the Tories are proposing cuts to that too.
When is a local authority going to do what Liverpool did in the mid-Eighties and refuse to implement Tory cuts and refuse to set a budget? If enough of them did it, instead of one council in isolation, it would work.

Pinkolady

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