Jobs at Leytonstone Jobcentre will not be cut, says Department of Work and Pensions
10:42am Monday 15th July 2013 in Waltham Forest 
By Zachary Norman, Reporter
Jobs at Leytonstone?s Jobcentre will not be cut, according to the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).
The Department, headed by Chingford and Woodford Green MP Iain Duncan Smith, made the announcement late on Friday after the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union raised concerns last week that proposed job cuts in the public sector would see job losses in the borough.
A DWP spokeswoman said: ?We are not planning to reduce our services in Leytonstone Jobcentre or any part of the East London district.?
She added that the Department is looking to reduce the costs of its services over the next few years in line with the Government?s spending plans, whilst at the same time deliver services to people locally.
A PCS spokesman said last week that the union had been told staffing at Leytonstone Jobcentre in Lemna Road would be reduced from 54 to 46 while Walthamstow's Youth Hub on Forest Road would see numbers down from 30 to 21.
The spokesman added that the job losses were because the DWP had plans to cut 10 per cent of its workforce in East London.
PCS branch secretary George Thompson had said the job cuts would have a significant impact on help for the unemployed in the borough and that frontline services to unemployed 18-24 year olds would be particularly hard hit.
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