Frontline youth work will remain unaffected by cutbacks designed to claw back the hole in Leicester City Council's lifelong learning budget, the councillor in charge of education has pledged.
Under the original 2.3m cost-cutting proposals the city's youth service faced heavy cutbacks, including the loss of four full-time and 49 part-time youth work posts. Several out-of-school clubs would also have been closed. But revised plans, due to go before councillors on 11 July, would reduce adult learning and early years services.
Lib Dem councillor Hussein Suleman, the cabinet minister for education, said: "These proposals would have had a serious effect on everybody. But youth services will now remain untouched. Morale is the issue that still needs to be addressed."
Despite the U-turn, the council is likely to keep the vacant post of quality assurance officer for the youth service unfilled for the next two years.
