Birmingham City Council plans to cut central education services and outsource them as private cooperative/trust organizations. This would affect services that support music, outdoor learning, special education needs, early years teaching, behavior support, school advising and improvement, health education, family learning, school catering and cleaning, and international student exchange. The letter writer is concerned that once outsourced, these services will either close or only be available to schools and families that can afford to pay for them. They ask the recipient to sign an enclosed petition challenging the proposed cuts to these important education support services.