The council told youth service staff last month that the equivalent of 23 management and administration posts would be cut as part of a wider cost-cutting exercise to save 1.2m.
The losses include senior management, administrative support and youth work practitioners. A spokesman for the Labour-run council said the cuts were focused at the "manager- and senior-practitioner end" of the service to reduce the level of losses from the youth workers and youth support worker tiers, but admitted a deputy youth officer post had gone.
The staffing changes will take place over the rest of the year, and the reorganised youth service will come into operation from 31 March 2008. In an enhanced youth inspection by Ofsted in 2006, Staffordshire County Council was rated as good.
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