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Monday 4 July 2011

Supporting libraries not fining children

“To try to raise revenues by targeting this client base is a backwards step,” said Robert, who lives in the Yorkshire Dales and has family in Stockton, Marske and Seaton Carew.
“You are fining a lot of people who can’t afford it. If there’s the potential to be fined then people won’t use that service.
“I go to a lot of schools where the kids have next to no money. The first thing they ask me is whether the book will be in the local library. Libraries are hugely important and literacy among children is a really big issue.”




http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2011/07/04/teesside-libraries-charging-highest-kids-fines-in-north-east-84229-28989247/

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