The Standard reports tonight that hundreds of council jobs are at risk in Haringey:
"Councils in London are facing a jobs bloodbath, with thousands of posts being axed because of huge cuts in government funding.
"Lambeth could lose 2,000 posts, 1,000 are at risk in Haringey, and Brent is expected to axe around 350 jobs — having already lost the same number.
"Haringey leader Claire Kober said: 'The depth and speed of the Government's public sector spending cuts have put local councils under immense pressure to make urgent savings.
'It is not possible to remove upwards of £50 million from our budget without significant job losses. We will, wherever possible, make cuts by first deleting vacant posts, but further job losses are unfortunately unavoidable'."
Full article here.