Job losses are “inevitable” at Leeds City Council, one of the authority’s most senior officers has said.
The council said last week that up to 750 full-time posts could be cut over the next 18 months, as it stares down a black hole in this year’s budget, which currently stands at £30m. The dire situation has been blamed on the spiralling costs of placing vulnerable children in the care of fostering agencies and privately run children’s homes, in some cases miles away from Leeds.
That’s why we’ve got to do this re-base and it will mean we have to reduce or stop some services.” Ms Bradshaw confirmed that the council would have to use some of its reserves at the end of the financial year in March to help balance the books, in addition to the cutbacks. Such a move is rare. The council did it for the first time at the beginning of 2023, after inflation and the soaring cost of energy wiped millions out of its accounts.
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