BARNSLEY Council has sent consultation letters to all 3,400 workers meaning that its entire non-schools workforce is at risk of redundancy.

Hundreds of jobs will go as the council cuts a further £10.5m from its annual budget.

Proposed savings will see some children's centres closing, the mobile library service scrapped and replaced with a home delivery service, and £2.5m cut from children's services.

Those are just some of the proposals which the public are now being asked to comment on and talk about.

The authority has already cut £60m from its budget over the past four years, by 2017 it will have had to save another £28m.

About 320 full-time equivalent positions will go which Unison says could 444 in actual positions.

Savings are being squeezed from every department, from cutting welfare advice to reducing the number of hours recycling centres are open.

The proposals would also mean £1m saved in the finance department by replacing 60 staff with a computer system, the free Open Door council newspaper axed, and £250,000 cut from the transport levy - which means no change to current concessionary travel fares.

The cost of burials and cremations will go up by six per cent over the next two years, green waste bins will no longer be emptied during winter, the subsidised Micard travel card will be phased out and the council will no longer pay for intermediate care beds.

To take part in the consultation go to www.barnsley.gov.uk/futurecouncil