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September 22, 2008
Which councils spend less than 1% of their whole library budget on childrens' books?
Can you believe that there are councils that spend less than 1% of the money they take from council taxpayers on books for children to read?
Start now. For example within the list of Inner London Boroughs there some who spend slightly more than one percent but several who spend less. Shall I name them?
And how about Newcastle upon Tyne? What percentage of their gross library funding was spent on childrens books in 2006/7? Is this council the example which others should be following
And Brighton and Hove, the great model of a PFI?
Posted by Perkins at September 22, 2008 6:58 PM
Comments
It appears that this afternoon Gordon Brown will announce some "scheme"
or other for every child to have a computer and broadband at home.
Presumably this means that there will be room for more books in public
libaries
Posted by: Christopher Hawtree at September 23, 2008 9:57 AM