The county council is proposing to transfer the youth service to a separate company, which would also run Connexions. The Community and Youth Workers' Union held a rally on 10 May to highlight its concerns.
Speaking at the rally, Doug Nicholls, general secretary of the union, said: "Moving youth services outside of the local authority leads to a fall in the standards of youth services and it can dramatically increase the costs of delivering youth work."
Dan Moxon, a local union spokesman, added: "We are concerned about services being outsourced by the council."
Connexions maintains that the merger would improve front-line services. Anne Rutherford, information and research manager at Connexions Cheshire and Warrington, said: "The concern is the outsourcing, but Connexions is a council-owned organisation."
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