Children's centres, crossing patrols and road gritting among services earmarked for cuts in Warwickshire

Cuts to children and family centres, rural buses, housing support and school crossing patrols are being proposed as Warwickshire County Council grapples with balancing its books.​

Three household waste centres could close and there will be impacts on the roads with winter gritting to be reduced “to statutory minimum”, street lighting set to be switched off for longer and grass verges next to roads potentially cut less frequently.

Savings plans in the county’s medium term financial strategy (MTFS) – the document that sets out budgetary plans for the next five financial years – make for grim reading as the number crunchers decide how to plug a £69.4 million black hole.