FUNDING has not yet been secured for a promised 700 new jobs across East Lancashire.
Council bosses announced in August that they had secured £4.5million from the government under its Future Jobs Fund to create 700 mostly public-sector jobs for young people.
But a report said that while £2.7million had already been offered by the Department for Work and Pensions to create 419 of the jobs, the government had not yet decided whether to award the rest of the cash.
So far 102 jobs have been created.
East Lancashire bosses are still waiting for a response to their second funding bid.
If accepted, it would take the project forward another year until March 2011.
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