Letters: Funding cuts are forcing impossible choices on our local authorities, say Dr Ellen McAdam and Dr Frank Compton
Your coverage of the staff restructuring by Leicester museums in response to funding cuts is hardly fair. A decade of austerity has forced even local authorities that, like Leicester, value their cultural institutions highly to make impossible choices. Social care or arts? Children’s services or museums?
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