While CILIP welcomes the Budget announcement of £5m for secondary school libraries. CEO Louis Coiffait-Gunn calls for “a long-term strategy to secure statutory status for school libraries, with ongoing funding for professional library staff in every school”. https://ow.ly/OOC150XyxWb
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