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Cutswatch

Public services face the harshest cuts in decades. We want to know what's happening in your area

  • Cutswatch map

    Cutswatch: help us tell the momentous story of the cuts

    As the UK moves into a new phase of the cuts, our new Cutswatch tool enables you to send in reports that show how spending reductions are starting to bite

  • Bags of rubbish and overflowing bins

    Public sector cuts: Help us track the cuts

    We want to hear about the cuts near you

  • Children's services, boy on stairs

    Cuts to children's services like 'Armageddon'

    Cutswatch: Vulnerable children at risk as services countrywide struggle with post-Baby P increase in referrals, and the coalition government's 25% spending cuts
  • Clyst Day Centre for the elderly

    Care for the elderly will be hit hard by local council cuts

    Anna Bawden looks at how harsh spending cuts will hit those who use frontline services

  • How the coalition's cuts are affecting public services

    Our specialist writers examine the impact of budget constraints on the different sectors

  • Wheelchair user

    Scope warns cuts will further marginalise disabled people

    Charity says coalition plans could push already 'invisible' group deeper into social exclusion
  • Tell us about cancelled schools rebuilding work in your area

    Does the scrapping of the Building Schools for the Future programme affect you?

  • Scattered Letters and Numbers

    Literacy unit faces closure

    It has helped jobless people and offenders to upgrade their skills and employability. Now it's under threat
  • LOLLIPOP LADY AT PEDESTRIAN CROSSING, BRITAIN

    Lollipop patrol hit by cutbacks

    Most lunchtime patrols are being cut in South Tyneside, reports Rachel Williams
  • The Law Society says 25% cuts ordered by the Treasury will hit legal aid and the courts service

    CPS cuts will put justice for the vulnerable at risk, says Law Society

    'Wholly unacceptable' budget cut will cost government more in the long run, says solicitors' leader
  • A fire

    Surely a burnt-down school will get fixed?

    In today's Cutswatch, we follow up a reader's tip off about the plight of 800 pupils in Doncaster, whose school has been burnt to the ground

  • martin rowson on cuts

    We're keeping a watch on cutbacks across the UK

    Today's focus: How one council plans to reduce its spending by £40m
  • job centre

    Children's services, jobcentres and a hospital feel the squeeze

    Job losses at jobcentres and children's services, plus, hospital voluntary redundancy scheme

  • A Stage With A Spotlight And Drawn Curtains

    Cutswatch: you tell us where arts are feeling the squeeze

    Paul MacInnes: The arts community is expected to feel the impact of government austerity measures in the coming months, but we want you to help us paint a detailed picture of where the axe strikes

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