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Youth workers strike in prime minister’s home patch
Oxfordshire County Council is one of many turning its back on
young people. Unite says this has to STOP!
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Youth workers in the prime minister's home patch have vowed to
battle on to save the county's top class youth service as they
stage a further walk-out on Tuesday 1 November on the steps of
County Hall, Oxford.
The walk-outs are uniting young people in the area with one
local young man making a direct appeal to the prime minister to
intervene to ensure young people get the same support he got from
youth workers in Banbury. Read the letter here
The action comes just days after 21 young people and youth
workers travelled from Banbury to London to join the Choose Youth
lobby of Parliament, where more than 1,000 young people from across
the country urged MPs to stop coalition cuts ripping the youth
service apart.
The jobs of 80 professional youth workers, who care for hundreds
of vulnerable young people across the county are at risk, as the
Tory-led council races ahead with plans to off-load the running of
its 26 youth centres and two-detached youth teams.
A similar scene is being played out in councils across the
country as the government’s ill-advised policies and brutal
spending cuts hit the frontline.
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resources:
Oxfordshire's youth workers continue
industrial action against a council unwilling to discuss or
negotiate, October 2011
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OCC youth workers strike on video: Tuesday 23
August 2011
OCC youth workers strike in pictures: Tuesday
23 August 2011
Choose Youth
Unite says that since coming to power this government has done
all it can to alienate young people; one million young people are
unemployed, hundreds of thousands have been priced out of education
as the Education Maintenance Allowance is scrapped and tuition fee
hiked.
And now it is presiding over the destruction of the youth and
community support young people need to help them on the right
path.
Unite is part of Choose Youth, a coalition of 30 youth and
community organisations defending young people services and its
workers from government and local government cuts, and has joined
forces to preserve the right of all 13-19 year-olds to open-access
youth service provision.
A mass lobby of parliament to save young people’s services will
be held on 25 October. For more information on the campaign, please
visit: www.chooseyouth.org
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