A LEADING councillor is asking for a social services budget to be reviewed again.
Lancashire County Council social services chairman, Councillor Doreen Pollitt, wants the finance sub-committee to review its figures. Staying within the budget this year will mean cuts in domiciliary care, day care and residential care services across the county, she claims.
Coun Pollitt said: "I could not recommend to the social services committee making cuts of nearly £3m that I knew would have a serious effect on some of the most vulnerable people in the county.
"A reduction like this would jeopardise all the work that has been going on in Lancashire's social services directorate to create a modernised and efficient service for the whole of Lancashire.
"I am asking to look at this again and have recommended only £741,000 of cuts and £141,000 of growth items."
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