Potential headache for Cheshire East council

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RE: Potential headache for Cheshire East council

(07/02/2017 17:15)St Helens Rider Wrote:  This is happening all over the country. I know in the St Helens area they plan to close Newton-Le-willows job centre, although it's only a 20 minute to what will be the expanded St Helens office. Apologies for going slightly off topic but it is part of the same review.

There's consultations for 25 closures: https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...=&to_date= and it's possible there could be more as they don't have to consult where the alternative job centre is within 3 miles of the existing one.

With Cheshire East awarding new 5 year contracts to replace the ex-GHA services last autumn the timing of this for them isn't good but I suppose it depends what provision there is for amendments to contracts if there's a significant change in usage.