Business plan protest
Thursday 23rd July 2009, 2:57PM BST.
Geraldine Nicholas, chairman of the Parents After Results Committee. Picture by Matthew Hotton (00750063)
Members of the Grands Vaux Youth Club fear for its future following the news that jobs are to be lost at the family centre.
Angry protesters gathered to show their support for staff yesterday morning as they met union leaders. It is thought that up to ten staff, including nursery workers from the Grands Vaux Family Centre, will lose their jobs as part of the Business Plan cutbacks.
As the workers met in tears yesterday morning, children and parents from the area gathered outside with banners to show their support.
‘The club is our community. The community is us,’ chanted the 20 or so protesters.
Geraldine Nicholas, chairman of Parents After Results Committee, who was at the protest, said that the States ‘did not care about people’ and felt they were targeting the underprivileged.
‘The youth centre is funded by the nursery, and the nursery has been here for years and they do so much work in this community. They are a real asset. Their funding has been stopped and about ten people are to lose their jobs,’ she said.
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But you’re just bottom of the food chain working people who are expected to take it lying down, time Mr Corbel got out of his chair and started waiving his stick………..!
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wouldn’t it be nice if the 20 or so “angry” protestors put their hands in their pockets and paid for this them selves rather than expecting the already stretched to the limit tax payers to fund their coffee mornings
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We want people to support themselves and not live on handouts and then the CoM decides to remove the nursery care….so how are these parents now expected to manage to go to work?
What is the point of saving on nursery funding only to give out more income support with the other hand? This is more evidence of the CoM living on another planet from the rest of us.
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Paulo you miss the point completely the youth club has entertained kids for years and is vital to Jersey life as all the others are. The children taht go there have no money.
Would you rather them be on the streets causing problems. When Jersey is complaining about the “youths” it is mind boggling that they are shutting down community centres.
Shame on all of you half-wirs that voted for it, your only respnse will be to jail more adoloescents.
A pound saved now so we can spend 10 in the future, you make me sick.
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so where will all the kids go now! Oh i know. On the streets.
so that will be the power that be bods something else to moan about!
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