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Sep 24
A CITY council director who oversaw unprecedented £14.6 million cuts to children’s services was paid £174,000 to walk away from her job. Sharon Menghini, pictured below, quit the council and pocketed the golden handshake after Stoke-on-Trent City Council revealed plans to merge her role in charge of children’s services. The pay-out, combined with £151,515 in …
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Sep 20
Cash strapped Stoke-on-Trent City Council is to write off a further £7.5m of debt when its Cabinet meets next Thursday, doubling the amount it has written off in the last 2 years, taking the total to £16m. ¹In May earlier this year the Labour run council wrote off £3m and said it had put things …
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Sep 08
Stoke-on-Trent’s three Labour MPs, Rob Flello, Tristram Hunt and Joan Walley’s, claim for expenses have rocketed over 12 months by over 20% as figures are published by the IPSA for MPs expense for the 2011/12 financial year. All three of the potteries MPs have significantly increased their claims for expenses, with Tristram Hunt, Stoke Central …
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Sep 06
Labour councillors who run Stoke-on-Trent City Council voted on mass to block an impassioned plea by petitioners and City Independent Stoke councillor Randy Conteh to debate and discuss the moving of its HQ from Stoke to Hanley at a cost to the taxpayers of $59m, at its full council meeting tonight (Thursday 6Sept). Richard Snell, …
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Sep 04
PotteriesEYE investigated and broke the story of £26,000 being spent on free coffee and tea for senior councillors and senior officers at Stoke-on-Trent City Council. The Sentinel reports it today, as an aside, thanks Sentinel for giving credit to us community volunteers so that you can make money out of the news we researched and …
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Aug 31
Stoke-on-Trent’s City Council’s Children and Young People’s Services (CYPS) Overview and Scrutiny Committee are to be told of a £2m overspend that “could be as high as £3.502m if children remain in their current placements.”, in a report by Mark Kenyon, Finance & Commercial Manager CYPS. The Report: http://www.moderngov.stoke.gov.uk/mgconvert2pdf.aspx?id=38113 http://www.moderngov.stoke.gov.uk/mgconvert2pdf.aspx?id=38153 The report reveals the spiraling cost is …
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Oct 13
Soapbox: Hanley Regeneration – A Price Worth Paying?
News, Opinion
by PottEye
October 13, 2012
Regenerating Stoke-on-Trent after the demise of its hardcore industrial past has been the primary aim of our political leaders for over two decades now. It’s a never-ending work in progress. There has been some limited success most notably Trentham Lakes with its high-tech/ low man power logistic sprawl. However, it is becoming an increasingly desperate …
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