universal library membership for all children
Wandsworth Council is ensuring the delivery of its Libraries First! Strategy and Action Plan, which guides library services including universal membership for children, through an extended contract.
Wandsworth Council's Cabinet extended its library services contract with Greenwich Leisure Ltd (GLL) in July 2025, ensuring continuity of service until March 2028. This decision aims to deliver the new Libraries First! Wandsworth Library Strategy and Action Plan within the existing funding envelope. This strategy guides the provision of library services, including programs such as universal library membership for all children, which is a program designed to offer library membership to all children.
The Libraries First! strategy is being delivered within the existing budget, as approved by the council's Cabinet. No specific upcoming meetings or decisions directly addressing the universal library membership for all children program have been reported in the supplied materials.
Key facts
- Wandsworth Council extended its library services contract with GLL for an additional two years until March 2028. Source
- The contract extension ensures delivery of the new Libraries First! Wandsworth Library Strategy and Action Plan. Source
- The decision was made during a Cabinet meeting on 14 July 2025. Source
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