Staff at Haringey Council face redundancy this year as savings of more than £10 million are planned.

Some posts are to be "deleted" and trade unions have been consulted to ease the process.

Budget documents proposed at Haringey's cabinet meeting this week detail savings of £10.8m this year, with a focus on providing frontline services.

The 35-page brief states that £2m has already been earmarked for redundancy payouts for staff affected, although the number of jobs to go is unknown.

The report reads: "The staffing implications of the saving proposals include the deletion of a number of posts. All efforts will be made to minimise the impact on permanent posts.

"It may transpire that some redundancies will be unavoidable and the due statutory process will be followed."

The council's trade unions have been involved in consultation meetings about the budget.

Chairman of Haringey's Trade Union Council, Keith Flett, believes this is madness and will result in higher bills for the taxpayer. He said: "It's not really a surprise but the impact of it doesn't really make a great deal of sense in terms of where we are. When it comes down to it the idea is bonkers. There's no other way of putting it.

"If you lay people off - most of the council’s staff live in Haringey - all you're doing is creating unemployment in the borough and making the impact of the recession worse. What they then do is go and claim job seeker's allowance and where does that money come from? The taxpayer."

Council leader Claire Kober said efficiencies were needed and some administrative tasks would be automated to concentrate on frontline services. She said: "It's about ensuring our back office functions are as lean as possible so we can put the money into frontline services. We will be looking at the way people work as council employees, looking at space and facilities."

A spokesman for London Councils, which represents all the Capital's boroughs said tough decisions were ahead. He said: "We have repeatedly warned that the Government's latest funding settlement - which amounted to a real-term cut in funding - would force the capital's local authorities into making some tough decisions.

"Realistically how boroughs deal with that is down to them, but each individual borough is having to look at their budgets."