Letter: What will council do with grant cash?

Once again, Shropshire Council has made a cut. Not in the withdrawal of money, but by withholding it from those who should have received it in the first place – £511,000 of grant money for town and parish councils handed down from central government will be retained by Shropshire Council for fire fighting "budgetary pressures"as reported by the Shropshire Star February 26.

My chief question is this where will that money go?

Will some go to the starved youth services, which have had their budget all but terminated within the last 18 months alone?

Or what about the so called "unsustainable" Sunday bus services, which will be terminated in at the end of the month despite only costing approximately £80,000 per annum?

Or what about the local child and adolescent mental health services, which have a 12-month waiting list for issues as severe as self-harm and anorexia, and despite every clinician and doctor within the service badly over capacity, is apparently over-staffed by five professionals? Fifty per cent of the current team size.

I sadly doubt this will occur. Give it up, Keith. You're fooling nobody. Give the money to people who might actually try to spend it wisely.

Deniz Gulduren, Market Drayton