BIRMINGHAM’S five Citizens Advice Bureau offices are set to close their doors next month after seeing its £600,000 council funding cut.
Offices in the city centre, Kingstanding, Handsworth,Tysley and Northfield will close on February 11 unless the charity can raise £50,000 per month to stay open.
It means that well over 50,000 people who last year called on the service for free debt councelling, benefits help and other advice will be left without a free open-door CAB service.
The closure of the Kingstanding office will have a major effect on many vulnerable residents in the Oscott Area.
Both Councillor Dring and I are determined unlike some other Councillors to continue to hold Councillor Surgeries where residents can come and discuss their problems with us face to face.
But the Cab is desperately needed in this area.
The Government talks about helping create a big society and then our Council does its best to demolish it by removing its building blocks like the CAB and other voluntary groups.
Regardless of political allegiances we should all try and resist this proposal by the Council.
Offices in the city centre, Kingstanding, Handsworth,Tysley and Northfield will close on February 11 unless the charity can raise £50,000 per month to stay open.
It means that well over 50,000 people who last year called on the service for free debt councelling, benefits help and other advice will be left without a free open-door CAB service.
The closure of the Kingstanding office will have a major effect on many vulnerable residents in the Oscott Area.
Both Councillor Dring and I are determined unlike some other Councillors to continue to hold Councillor Surgeries where residents can come and discuss their problems with us face to face.
But the Cab is desperately needed in this area.
The Government talks about helping create a big society and then our Council does its best to demolish it by removing its building blocks like the CAB and other voluntary groups.
Regardless of political allegiances we should all try and resist this proposal by the Council.
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