GOVERNMENT plans to shut nine offices putting thousands of civil servants at “very real risk of losing their jobs" have been slammed by the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union. General secretary Fran Heathcote said today that the Department for Work and Pensions was closing the service and support centres to cut costs, rather than to improve efficiency and working conditions as it has claimed.The department previously justified the closures as a means for the “DWP estate to be smaller, more effective and deliver better value for money for the taxpayer.”

GOVERNMENT plans to shut nine offices putting thousands of civil servants at “very real risk of losing their jobs" have been slammed by the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union.

General secretary Fran Heathcote said today that the Department for Work and Pensions was closing the service and support centres to cut costs, rather than to improve efficiency and working conditions as it has claimed.

The department previously justified the closures as a means for the “DWP estate to be smaller, more effective and deliver better value for money for the taxpayer.”

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