Yes - spending cuts - austerity - cutting the money going to local authorities from Central Government, with the cuts not being necessarily evenly spread (Southampton gets particularly hard hit, for example).
That does not mean, necessarily, that others would not do the same, but if public...
All the best for Mrs Granny.
having a wife who works in (very) Senior management in a sixth-form college (different funding arrangements, but hey-ho), one knows only too well how easy it is for people who are doing an excellent job - and who are acknowledged as doing an excellent job - to get...
For me, sharing stuff like this is what makes NSC the Community (with a deliberate capital C) that it is.
And it also gives some valuable insights on occasion around major issues, like education, austerity or whatever that are tied up in this.