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DRASTIC funding cuts to third sector organisations have been blocked pending a special meeting of the Highland Council.
Members of the council’s Education, Children and Adult Services committee (ECAS) voted 11 to eight at a meeting last Wednesday (October 26), to approve cuts which would see total council funding for third sector groups slashed by 45 per cent during the 2017/18 financial year.