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Woeful response
• YOUR report on funding cuts to computer training is a real blow not only to UK Online centres but to people across the borough at the worst possible time (Protest at cuts online, November 26).
The South Hampstead Education and Lifelong Learning Centre provides an essential service in a part of the borough where unemployment and the need to reskill is particularly high.
It demonstrates how pathetically the Liberal Democrats and Tories running Camden have responded to the recession that all they can say is that they are “reviewing things”.
Other councils are doing so much more to help Camden out of recession. Haringey is considering parking vouchers to encourage local shopping. Westminster is investing in job creation, Southwark is promoting rate relief for small firms and Lambeth has launched a benefit take-up campaign.
What has Camden done? Spent more than £100,000 on a glossy leaflet and hiring two celebrities to launch a PR offensive.
Now they cut funding to help people expand their skills and make themselves more employable.
Is this really the best Camden can do? It has the healthiest reserves in London, £100million of our money, which isn’t being spent on services to help local people find jobs and isn’t being spent on helping local firms survive the recession. What a woeful, lacklustre response.
Mike Katz
Chair, Hampstead & Kilburn Labour Party
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