I was horrified to read that Brighton and Hove City Council hopes to shed its 290 home helps and then re-employ them through a private company to save around £300,000 a year ("Council plans to shed jobs", Argus, February 23).
This suggests the new home helps will be about £20 a week worse off than present council staff for doing the same job - or perhaps the council's administrative costs are horrendously high.
-R Stephenson, Upper Lewes Road, Brighton
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