The council has sent a 40-page consultation paper to all youth service staff that states generic services, such as youth clubs, could be contracted out to private and voluntary organisations. However, targeted and detached youth work services will continue to be delivered directly by the council.
In the paper, all full-time staff have been offered the opportunity to take voluntary redundancy or express an interest in a role under the new structure.
Penny Gray, Buckinghamshire branch secretary for trade union Unison, said that under the structure being proposed 24 jobs could be cut from the team of around 60. "All these firms are lining up to take on contracts, but they want to make a profit. The current service is not concerned with profit," she said.
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