Youth service staff have been sent notices warning them that their jobs are on the line as part of a proposal to transfer the county's delivery of youth services to the private and voluntary sector under a new commissioning system from April.
If the proposal is agreed by the county council at its annual budget-setting meeting at the end of next month, this will result in 70 redundancies, with just one commissioning team remaining to oversee the arrangements.
The council expects to save 2.5m from the move.
The council is consulting the Community and Youth Workers' Union in the run-up to the meeting. The union's general secretary Doug Nicholls threatened industrial action in Northamptonshire and elsewhere if the proposal goes ahead.
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