Jan 18
SOURCE: DAILY MAIL Highly-paid middle managers are still being taken on by councils despite spending cuts aiming to tackle the deficit. The number of bureaucrats earning more than £50,000 a year, with pension costs on top, has risen at local authorities in the Midlands, an investigation has revealed. As lower-paid staff suffer a pay freeze …
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Jan 11
As details of Stoke-on-Trent City Council secretive reorganisation seep out, council insiders express concern of a move towards a more isolated and centralised power base for the CEO, John van der Laarschot, with high profile officers in the firing line. We revealed late last year that the position held by Dan Barton at PR and …
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Nov 11
There is growing speculation within the council and the media that Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s HR committee, one of the most secretive within the organisation, last Friday agreed a restructure plan that included the deletion of a number of senior posts within the council. This speculation includes the deletion of the post of currently held by …
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Oct 20
A public question sent to Stoke-on-Trent city Council for the full council meeting on the 20 October 2011, sent over three weeks ago, was answered just 35 minutes before the meeting was held. The question related to staff in the council earning over £50,000. What it reveals is that whilst staff at the authority have …
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Oct 13
Stoke-on-Trent City Council today caved in to both councillor demands and public pressure to release the details of the “settlement” between the council and Waterworld. This followed a flood of FOI requests received by the council onto the matter. Whilst the council has made a press release three weeks after the event on the matter, …
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Sep 28
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is still defying the governments instructions on local councils having to release information about the salaries of senior staff nine months after the deadline to do so and over twelve months after the government diktat. Despite commitments from Stoke-on-Trent Chief Executive, Mr John van der Laarschot, one of the most highly paid council …
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Aug 16
A recent Freedom of Information request has revealed that over 60% of council property contains asbestos with 11,800 properties checked and 7,590 have been found to contain abestos. The FOI also reveals that council homes that have been worked on and where workers have had to protect themselves from the asbestos, no tenants have been …
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