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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Aug 20
Further pressure is being placed on Labour Leader Mohammed Pervez, his Cabinet colleagues and senior officers at Stoke-on-Trent City Council over savings schemes that are falling apart costing more than before the savings were proposed. Exclusively revealed last week by PotteriesEYE extra bin crews are having to be dispatched to cover the none collection of …
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Jul 16
A petition has been launched by campaigners against Labour run Stoke-on-Trent City Council proposals to move its Civic Centre headquarters to a new building in Hanley at a cost of £59m or £521 per household in the City. Campaigners fear the move with decimate Stoke upon Trent town centre and that the cost of the …
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Jun 14
NHS Stoke is forging ahead with its plans to be one of the first controversial Clinical Commissioning Group’s likely to be introduce in April 2013 following to passing of the heavily criticized and opposed Government white paper “Liberating the NHS: Equity and Excellence”, which has now been established in legislation as the Health and Social Care Act …
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May 09
Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s Chief Executive Officer, John van der Laarschot, has made number 37 on the taxpayers alliance 2012 Town Hall Rich List. The list also shows that Mr Laarschot receives more than the CEO of Staffordshire County Council, who is below him on the list. Council Name Job Title 2010-11 Hammersmith and Fulham Geoff …
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Jan 18
The Labour Party and Labour Councillors in Stoke-on-Trent are still seriously split over their Leader, Cllr Pervez, and his Cabinet’s budget cuts proposal’s following another unplanned meeting called last Monday night by the Labour Group leadership, held at the Civic Centre in Stoke, to try and resolve concerns. This follows an away day held at …
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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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