P-04-617 Stop the Wholesale Hiving Off of Public Libraries to the Voluntary Sector – Correspondence from the Petitioner to the Committee, 06.05.15
It is helpful to note that the deputy minister is encouraging local
authorities to consider the independent research, but obviously
this is non-statutory and in the meantime of no protection for
groups like my own, which are forced down the path of judicial
review to protect our libraries. The library service in Wales is
the responsibility of the Welsh Government and it needs to have
statutory provisions to protect the service from local authority
cost-cutting. Encouraging authorities to do anything when it runs
counter to their need to make savings is no protection at all for
the library service.
Adam Riley