Hundreds march against youth service cuts

Hundreds took part in a demonstration on Saturday against the council’s plans to cut youth services. 

Young people handed in a petition last week asking Councillors to rethink cuts of £800,000 to the youth service budget in Brighton and Hove.

One of the campaigners, Raven Lee, spoke at a Brighton and Hove City Council meeting at Hove Town Hall.

She said that the cuts were “short-sighted economically as well as socially” and would “put young people in harm’s way”.

She was greeted with applause and told by Labour councillor Dan Chapman, the new chairman of the council’s Children, Young People and Skills Committee, that £100,000 would be put back into the budget.

Despite the slight respite, campaigners are still voicing their anger, as shown by a large demonstration on Saturday.

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