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27 January 2011
Last updated at 01:39 ET
About 1,500 jobs are to go at Liverpool City Council because of government spending cuts, the authority has said.
The Labour-run authority said it needed to reduce staff numbers by the end of March 2013 - and said compulsory redundancies might be necessary.
Town Hall bosses said they had to find £141m of savings between now and 2013 - £91m of them in 2011-12.
Staff were being given the news on Thursday. The council said it could not yet say which areas would be affected.
'Tough choices' A council spokesman said: "We are looking to protect as far as possible services for the most vulnerable - adults, children and disabled people - but we will have some tough choices to make and even those services will not be immune."
The city council, which expects to hear the level of its government grant settlement on 10 February, is due to set its budget on 2 March.
Cuts to grants have been imposed by the coalition government in an attempt to cut the national budget deficit.
A cross-party delegation from the council's Labour, Liberal Democrats and Green groups has been working together on a strategy for the cuts.
Work is already under way to reorganise the council, including cutting the number of business units from 74 to 27, cutting 48 senior posts and axing bonuses.
The coalition government has said that no council would face cuts of more than 8.9% when it announced changes to local government grants in December.
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The Labour-run authority said it needed to reduce staff numbers by the end of March 2013 - and said compulsory redundancies might be necessary.
Town Hall bosses said they had to find £141m of savings between now and 2013 - £91m of them in 2011-12.
Staff were being given the news on Thursday. The council said it could not yet say which areas would be affected.
'Tough choices' A council spokesman said: "We are looking to protect as far as possible services for the most vulnerable - adults, children and disabled people - but we will have some tough choices to make and even those services will not be immune."
The city council, which expects to hear the level of its government grant settlement on 10 February, is due to set its budget on 2 March.
Cuts to grants have been imposed by the coalition government in an attempt to cut the national budget deficit.
A cross-party delegation from the council's Labour, Liberal Democrats and Green groups has been working together on a strategy for the cuts.
Work is already under way to reorganise the council, including cutting the number of business units from 74 to 27, cutting 48 senior posts and axing bonuses.
The coalition government has said that no council would face cuts of more than 8.9% when it announced changes to local government grants in December.
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