Ards and North Down Council has been accused of “failing families” after the local authority was overwhelmed with applications for children’s summer schemes.
Parents and a North Down Assembly Member have made complaints about the number of children turned away from summer schemes over the past few weeks, as the council failed to manage a larger number of applications than suspected, despite raising the number of places in the schemes this year.
North Down Alliance MLA Andrew Muir, a former Ards and North Down councillor and Mayor, called for the council to “intervene and address” the lack of sufficient places at Redburn summer scheme in Holywood.
