| Bob
Janes
Biography:
Bristol
Grammar School
Manchester
University
School
teacher for 32 years
(Deputy
Head of large Comprehensive 1980-96)
Elected
to Derbyshire County Council 1997
Vice-Chair
of Education 1999-2001
Cabinet
Member –2001 – present
Interests
– Cricket, Railways, Bristol Rovers, Reading, Watching Ceefax
Abstract:
Safe in our Hands? - Public Libraries in a Local Authority
Context
Public
service runs in the blood, as I hope to demonstrate. I have always
been extremely suspicious of moves to remove democratic accountability
from the delivery of vital statutory personal and community services.
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