I READ with dismay the continuing coverage in the Guardian of the wide-ranging cuts in services for the elderly and the disabled by the council.
Last month, it was reported in the Guardian that the council is owed £7.8m in rent arrears from nearly 60 per cent of its tenants.
On the letters page in last week's Guardian, it was revealed that the man who murdered Doris Crystall owed the council £6,000 in rent arrears on his flat with little attempt by the council to recover it.
With this state of affairs going on it is hardly surprising that the council is short of the money needed to balance its books.
What the ruling Labour group on the council should be doing is going after those tenants who owe it money and sorting out its financial shortfall that way, not by cutting back social services to the old and the disabled because that is the coward's way out of the problem.
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