Oxford City Council's new leader has ruled out further radical restructuring of the authority, which led to 75 job losses under the Liberal Democrat-Green coalition.

Alex Hollingsworth, who has been in charge of running the council since Labour's local election win on May 2, has held a series of talks with the chief executive, Marion Headicar, about the administration's plans for the future.

He said it was important that there were fewer staff changes over the next few years.

During the previous Liberal Democrat-Green administration, 75 staff out of about 1,500 were made redundant to cut costs, and the council's management structure was completely overhauled.

Senior officers were retrained as business managers and 23 new business units were created.

Mr Hollingsworth said: "There's been a period of complete upheaval and to do that all over again would be the last thing the council needs.

"It wouldn't be in the best interests of service delivery. We need to ensure that financial stability is maintained, and we have to ensure that the budget will stick."

Because staff morale was still low in certain council departments, he had asked his deputy, Bill Baker, to supervise human resources.

Mr Hollingsworth did not envisage any large-scale redundancy programme, but added Labour needed to be "careful with the financial situation".

The Liberal Democrat-Green administration agreed a budget containing £6m of cuts in March, but this did not include fresh redundancies.

Since the election, the Labour group has promised an extra £4m for leisure services and said this would come from the capital programme.

Mrs Headicar said: "I appreciate that times of change are difficult for staff, but the restructuring programme is now complete.

"I'm committed to building a council that values and invests in staff and I'm already working with the new portfolio holders to look at how we can deliver this and improve quality of service."