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Glenda Jackson slams Brent Lib Dems for closure of Kilburn ‘In2 Work’ centre

Local Labour MP Glenda Jackson and Kilburn ward Labour councillor Mary Arnold have attacked the Brent Lib Dems for closing yet another community facility in Kilburn after the Council announced it is shutting Kilburn’s Brent In2 Work centre in Malvern Road.

The In2 Work programme has assisted thousands of local people to find work. However, the Lib Dem Council are to cut the Kilburn centre whilst retaining parts of the programme based in the north of the borough.

As with most of the Lib Dem cuts starting with the swingeing increases in care charges for elderly people, the 143% increase in the cost of burying children and the new charges for bulky refuse collection, it is the poorest who will suffer most from their “savage cuts”.

Councillor Mary Arnold, said:

“Labour is campaigning with the centre’s users to fight the cut and keep it open. If our local Lib Dem councillors were doing their jobs properly they would have stopped this crazy cut from even being proposed let along going ahead. It’s their jobs which should be cut, by the voters on 6 May.”

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