A secondary school has been forced to cut staff because of falling pupil numbers and reduced finances.
A total of six full-time and one part-time member of the teaching staff will be lost at Rhyddings Business and Enterprise School in Oswaldtwistle at the end of the summer term.
One of the jobs will come through voluntary redundancy with the rest being made compulsorily redundant.
Headteacher Paul Trickett said the lack of primary school pupils in the area and changes in government school funding had forced the school to make the cuts.
He said: "The number of year five and year six pupils in primary schools for the next couple of years is down on what they have normally been.
"That feeds through to the secondary schools which results in lower funding and the need to lose jobs. It has also not been helped by some of the changes in funding for schools."
Mr Trickett added that over the next few years pupil numbers are expected to increase from 2014/15 but the job losses will not have a negative impact on the schools performance.
He said: "We will still maintain the breadth of the curriculum and maintain the same high standards.
"We are already expecting to achieve our best ever GCSE results this year which is very exciting."
Ken Cridland, secretary of the NUT, said the compulsory redundancies at the school are ‘unprecedented’.
He said: "Some of those people are NUT members and we are very concerned about that.
"We have never had our members made compulsorily redundant in this area, we have always found a voluntary solution."
He added: "We are working with the county council and the school to try and find voluntary redundancies."
Bob Stott, Lancashire County Council’s director with responsibility for schools, also said they are working with Rhyddings to try and avoid the redundancies and find an alternative solution.
He said: "Our human resources team work closely alongside schools on many staffing matters, including voluntary and compulsory redundancy and recruitment.
"However decisions on staffing are made by headteachers and governors. The county council cannot impose redeployment."
