Council’s Christmas shutdown
Date published: 21 December 2015
COUNCILLOR Jabbar
OLDHAM Council will scale down its services over Christmas.
Many public services and facilities run by the local authority will be restricted. Emergency out-of-hours services will remain available for urgent situations such as social care.
The services affected — and details of emergency contact telephone numbers — are on the council’s website at www.oldham.gov.uk/christmas_closures.
No waste collections on December 25 and January 1, so alternative arrangements have been made. Council staff are taking three days out of their annual leave on December 29-31 to permit the Christmas closure.
Councillor Abdul Jabbar, Cabinet member for finance and human resources, said: “Our Christmas closure has now been running for years. We’ve planned so that residents are largely unaffected.”
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