Liverpool council ‘to axe 1,500 jobs’

LIVERPOOL City Council may axe as many as 1,500 jobs in response to Government spending cuts.

The authority says it must find savings of £141m by 2013 with £91m in the next financial year.

Staff were given the news this morning but the council is still preparing an official statement.

Last month it said it would save £4.5m by axing 48 senior posts and reducing the number of council business units from 74 to 27.

Liverpool saw its ‘spending power’ reduce by £72.2m, or 11%, in 2011-12 following last month’s local Government settlement. It was handed £15.5m from a transition fund to help soften the blow for worst hit councils to bring the cut in line with an 8.9% limit.

Manchester City Council has already announced 2,000 cuts and Bolton expects 1,200 jobs to be lost.