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We must save young people from the cuts to come

Scotland’s local government services have been lashed by the economic downturn and the much-reduced budgets that have followed.

Finalising where the resultant cuts should finally fall will be an ­unenviable task.

But I am concerned to see how the cuts that some local authorities have already identified focus disproportionately on services for children and families.