The proposed 2.3m cuts, outlined by Leicester City Council's chief financial officer, include saving 208,000 by ending four full-time youth work jobs in schools and reviewing the role of a further six. This could force two youth centres to be downgraded to part-time venues.
The council is also considering scrapping youth work that does not meet targets laid out in its statutory youth work plan. This would save the local authority 71,000 but could cost 49 part-time youth workers their jobs.
Projects earmarked for closure would include those providing "low-level" recreational activity, schemes considered under-used, and those that failed to supply sufficient data about their work.
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