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Letter: Alarm over closure of homeless hostel
BACK in 2010 the leader of Leeds City Council, Coun Keith Wakefield, warned that cuts ‘the likes of which have not been seen since the 1930s’ would be felt in Leeds.
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And that appears to be the case with the closure of Leeds Crisis Centre and now the closure of Ladybeck House Hostel, which is classed as short-term emergency housing.
It was very disturbing to read in Thursday’s Yorkshire Evening Post, about the closure of a Ladybeck House Hostel that cares for up to 42 homeless people. Some at Ladybeck Hostel still do not know where they will be sleeping in the coming months.
I do agree that there needs to be cuts, but do these cuts need to directly affect short-term emergency housing? Can Leeds City Council make cuts in other areas?
Leeds City Council released figures on the savings that have been made with regard to the expenses involved in being the Leeds Lord Mayor. They have reduced spending on the Mayoral budget by a measly amount, less than two per cent.
Other hostels for the city’s homeless have also been earmarked for closure – Hollies and Richmond Court. How can Coun Wakefield sleep at night, making massive cuts, not seen since the Thirties, whilst the Lord Mayor of Leeds cost the tax payer £322,704 in 2010/11?
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freddie fly
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 06:26 PMLeeds has plenty of money, but is overloaded with union protected staff who are in bed with the councillors and as such do not address the real issues of overstaffing in non essential services, bloated pay pension contributions by LCC for the layers of senior staff and excessive costs for poor services ,for example the amount spent in childrens services on staffprojects outside childrens placem that do not really improve matters ,just look at the real results for example the number of disadvantaged children now homeless in the city, the cost of providing for adult social care per week for homes that are not fit for purpose.
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