TWENTY jobs at Hoyland and Jump Sure Start centre are at risk as part of savage cuts forcing reorganisation of children’s centres - and the job losses could hit hundreds of young families who use the service.
Barnsley Council cuts have forced a shake-up of children's centres which will see almost 300 childcare places axed and a third of jobs put at risk across the borough.
The workers at Hoyland and Jump Sure Start are currently employed by the Forge Community Partnership which runs the Sure Start service but they will transfer across to Barnsley Council from January 1. They will then go into a pool of workers fighting for jobs in the reorganised children’s centre services.
Read more in this week's Barnsley Chronicle, dated November 13
