A RAFT of services and jobs will be axed after Sefton’s cabinet gave the go-ahead for cuts.

Senior managers and leisure centre staff at Sefton Council are set to lose jobs, as outlined by Sefton’s chief executive Margaret Carney.

She also revealed that council tax is set to be frozen in the borough.

A quarter of the senior management and corporate staff are expected to go as part of plans to save £68m.

There will be two senior managers axed, saving £118k and six posts in auditing saving £148k.

Vacant posts will also be deleted from the financial management sector, saving £246k. This will achieve a third of the £3.9m savings needed in management and support services. Up to 28 jobs will go at leisure centres, saving £400k.

There will also be cuts to adult social care saving £3m.

Plans to make council staff take a 5% pay cut could be scrapped as talks are ongoing with trade unions. However the £3m would have to be met elsewhere.

Cabinet members also agreed that the £10m redundancy costs will be met from £12m held in reserves.