Mar 10
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has sent out a tender for a corporate image update that has angered staff facing redundancies after £21m of budget cuts were agreed last week.
Staff who have just been given their notices – reduced recently from 90 days to 30 days by the city council – have told PotteriesEYE they are dismayed by the latest revelations.
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Mar 06
Exclusive: Labour run Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s recently approved 2013 budget could have to be torn up following news that a judicial review has been lodged over the authority’s council tax support scheme approved just last month. The scheme will see some of the poorest benefit claimants in the city, who currently pay nothing, having to pay 30% …
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Jan 17
Chat with Stoke-on-Trent City Council Labour Leader, Mohammed Pervez, here on PotteriesEYE about the Council £21m cuts between 6.30pm and 7.30pm!
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Jan 04
Stoke-on-Trent city council is set to slash £70,000 from a grant to the New Vic theatre threatening other funding from the Art Council. The council said funding for the 597-seat venue in Hartshill would be scrapped altogether by 2016-17. Funding will be reduced by about £23,000 in each of the next three financial years as …
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Nov 26
Childrens services have so far failed to address a rising overspend in its budget for children in care despite putting plans in place to deal with the issue three months ago. The costs come from placing in increasing number of children outside the city in private foster care and care homes. In June the city …
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Nov 25
“Strong political leadership combined with decisive action provided a robust starting point to meet the challenges of the most severe financial settlement in recent history” a budget update report by John van de Laarschort will tell the Labour Cabinet on Thursday. The scale of the unprecedented financial challenge faced by the city has been well documented …
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Nov 15
The UK unemployment rate now stands at 7.8% down 0.4% on last year. See how the national figures have changed and get the numbers in each parliamentary constituency
• See the data for your constituency
• Download the data
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