The NSPCC is in discussions to redeploy fundraising staff after a consultation process within the department has put around 70 positions at risk.

While the charity is working to keep staff in alternative positions, a number have been put on notice of redundancy as part of changes to the department.

An NSPCC spokesman said: "During February and March, a comprehensive consultation process took place on new proposals for our fundraising department, at the end of which a number of current employees received redundancy notices.

"In parallel a number of new and existing vacancies were identified which significantly outnumbered the number of staff at risk. We are fully committed to working with these staff to identify suitable redeployment opportunities wherever possible."

The process of relocating employees whose jobs have been made redundant into new positions is still ongoing.

This round of job losses comes after an apparent period of difficulty for the NSPCC, which last financial year made £5m less than it spent. In the 2008-2009 financial year it spent just under £159m and raised just over £154m, according to records on Charity Commission register.

Income at the charity in the year ending 31 March 2010 was £152.2m.

The charity’s latest annual accounts show that staff numbers have been falling at the organisation. In 2009 it counted 2,089 staff members, compared with 1,871 in 2010. Just under 200 of those jobs were lost in the “activities to end cruelty to children” category, which declined from 1,542 staff members to 1,345.

During this time, the number of staff at the upper end of the pay scale increased. In 2009 NSPCC had one staff member in the £110,001 – £120,000 per year pay bracket and another in the £100,001 to £110,000 pay bracket. In 2010, there were five employees earning between £100,001 and £110,000 and one in the £150,001 to £160,000 pay scale.