{"id":330236,"date":"2025-08-09T09:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330236\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T09:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:48:11","slug":"north-somerset-librarians-told-not-to-express-views-on-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330236\/","title":{"rendered":"North Somerset librarians told not to express views on cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>: &#8220;Library staff are also free to express their own personal views on the library consultation, but we have politely requested this does not take place within a library building or within working hours so &#8216;business as usual&#8217; is not disrupted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If they wish to comment, they should respond as a member of the public rather than as a staff member as any &#8216;council&#8217; interviews should come from the library service&#8217;s cabinet member.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Worle Library, Pill Library and Winscombe Library are all under threat of closure under the plans, although one library in either Pill or Winscombe could be kept open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillors voted in February to cut \u00a3433k from the libraries budget as the council tries to make \u00a344m of savings across the next three years to balance its budget. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They will vote in February 2026 on the specific actions to achieve that cut, which could be implemented between summer 2026 and September 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A consultation on how to make the cuts is open until October 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The council told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: &#8220;Library staff are also free to express their own personal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-330236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114998182108392986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}