Caretakers must not be replaced by anonymous contractors

• A PRIVATE company will start cleaning Camden’s council estates this month.
Caretakers are much more than just cleaners, they look out for elderly residents, they check if fittings are broken or dangerous, they notice if there are suspicious characters about. 
They are an important part of our communities.
Last year Camden caretakers were awarded a five-star rating for their services, yet now the council are cutting their numbers and running down the service.
On Holly Lodge estate, we are losing one caretaker, leaving just  four caretakers left to look after more than 30 blocks.
The number of caretakers on this estate has already been cut by a third in the past 10 years.
We fear that the council are running down the caretakers service so they can privatise it entirely in the future.
Caretakers make our estates safer, cleaner and less crime-ridden.
They should not be replaced by badly-paid, anonymous, contractors who have no interest in the people living here.
Grace Livingstone, June Rose, Tamatha Weisser, Wendie Gray, Virginia Cleugh, Daisy Cockburn, Denise Dare, Gill Comyn, Lisa Rose, Hazel Redrup, Catherine Alexander, Maggi Ray-Jones, Valerie Doulton, F Lloyd, Margaret Wheeler, Cristina Tamm, J Hogg, RL Rutherford, Alan Brooke, R Crossing, Anja Hoffman, Josh Cedar, Mazy Burns, Ashoka Norman, Benedict Newbery, Victoria Wood, Julia Wright, Barbara Sweeney, David Braunsberg, Suzanne Grundy, Joanna Newman, Uwe Westphal
ALL RESIDENTS OF HOLLY LODGE ESTATE