Manchester Council to cut £1.8m communications spending
Manchester City Council is to cut £1.78m from its corporate communications budget in a move that will cause some job losses.
Staff in communications management, administration, accounts handling and press office roles could lose their jobs, according to the council's proposals.
The corporate communications department had been scheduled to deliver savings of £490,000. But as part of widespread council cuts, spending on communications will now be reduced by 28.9 percent, saving £1.78m.
M Four, the council's in-house print and design team, has been spared the axe. Instead it will be given "increased revenue targets".
The council's newspaper, 'Manchester People', and its Ward News magazine 'Life, in...' will no longer be printed, but will continue to run in some form online.
The communications cuts are part of wide-ranging measures to reduce spending that will affect almost every council service in Manchester.
The council has been challenged to find £110m worth of savings in a year after government slashed 21 percent of its funding. Council leader Sir Richard Leese described the cuts as "the worst cuts since the war".