{"id":79006,"date":"2026-02-19T18:30:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/reform-run-council-says-free-library-scheme-for-refugees-is-not-value-for-money\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:00:35","slug":"reform-run-council-says-free-library-scheme-for-refugees-is-not-value-for-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/reform-run-council-says-free-library-scheme-for-refugees-is-not-value-for-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform-run council says free library scheme for refugees \u2018is not value for money\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/48e4ade266fcaf349bf41897484aff006e51a53e\/912_0_4560_3648\/master\/4560.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=443b89d054105509837b4f626ac30c8f\" alt=\"Reform-run council says free library scheme for refugees \u2018is not value for money\u2019\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Reform-run council says free library scheme for refugees \u2018is not value for money\u2019<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Party withdraws all Lancashire libraries from City of Sanctuary UK programme that supports new arrivals to UK Reform UK has been criticised for withdrawing all Lancashire libraries from a scheme supporting refugees because it was not value for money \u2013 despite being free.Nigel Farage\u2019s party said the region\u2019s 63 libraries would no longer be part of the UK-wide Libraries of Sanctuary programme because it was not \u201can appropriate use of taxpayers\u2019 money\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/feb\/18\/reform-run-lancashire-council-says-free-library-scheme-refugees-not-value-for-money\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Reform-run council says free library scheme for refugees \u2018is not value for money\u2019 Party withdraws all Lancashire libraries from City of Sanctuary UK programme that supports new arrivals to UK Reform UK has been criticised for withdrawing all Lancashire libraries from a scheme supporting refugees because it was not value for money \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":79007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}