CHILDREN'S services and health budgets will be discussed at a public meeting next week.

Representatives of Bury Council and its neighbours will also examine the 2004 in-patient survey at the Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust joint health overview and scrutiny committee.

The committee's job is to look at services provided by the trust at Fairfield General Hospital and other hospitals in Rochdale, Oldham and North Manchester.

The meeting is on Wednesday, September 1, at the Royton Suite, Civic Centre, West Street, Oldham starting at 1pm.

The committee will discuss mental health services on September 7 at Committee Room 3, Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, Council Offices, Wellington Road, Ashton-under-Lyne at 1pm