While local councils do not directly have so much to do with the credit crunch, they certainly suffer from many of its effects.
Later this month the Council is to decide if and (if yes) how to proceed with the plans for the new Civic Offices, against a backdrop of a very difficult budget in which it will be hard to avoid cuts.
The Council had a 'summit' last week (invited guests only at short notice) about how to tackle this. I think the voluntary organisations Reading CAB, Welfare Rights and Reading Credit Union should be at the forefront of offering the advice people need and (in the case of the Credit Union) secure and good value loans and savings.
Meanwhile Vince Cable is visiting the University on Thursday - please do come along (his talk starts at 7.30pm), and as someone said recently, when you're scrambling for the lifeboats, you don't stop to work out who hit the iceberg, do you, Mr Brown?
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