East Sussex County Council has agreed to a £19 million cuts plan despite last minute opposition.
The authority's majority Conservative group pushed through what it called a “budget for growth”.
But opposition leaders criticised cuts to adult social care and children’s services and urged the council to dip further into its reserves...
Alternative plans, which included proposals for 20mph zones outside schools in East Sussex, were dismissed.
The budget includes proposals to close four children’s centres and merge them with nearby centres, cut a further £12 million from children’s services and axe £4.7 million from the adult social care budget.
There will also be cuts to the street lighting and libraries budgets...
The budget received unanimous support from the Conservative group and was passed despite Labour and the Liberal Democrats voting against.
One alternative might have been to cut the pay of those at the top of East Sussex County Council, but strangely that wasn't part of the "budget for growth."
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