“We need
more money to deliver services” Why?
Because we have lost control of our pay bill!
More Government Inspectors needed urgently.
During
2022 when the spend, spend, spend Northumberland County Council Leader, Glen
Sanderson and his secret cabinet were caught out for the fourth time by funding
the highest rich list payments in the North-east for their bloated top staffing
team.The hard to embarrass leader of Council and his empire building cabinet
members crept out from under their stones and promised to reduce the top
earners pay bill by £1M. They went on to cut the pay bill all right, by £13.2
million by slashing jobs and slowing recruitment of skilled and professional
employees by trying to replace them with a few apprentices.
The
almost complete collapse of service delivery is entirely the fault of the
leader of council and his deputy having no control at all over their empire
building cabinet members who all want top paid advisors whispering in
their ears while the men and women on the ground delivering services are being
pulled from pillar to post as there’s nowhere near enough of them left to get
the job done.
With 22
officers currently earning more than £100,000 and shortages on the front line
firefighting to deliver repairs maintenance and social services, food
inspections and planning enforcement as a brief example of Leader and Cabinets
failings it shows how far from ever being delivered the Cabinet promises of
Northumberland County Council were and still are.
It's time
the Government appointed another inspector as one is urgently needed to run the
Council until the May 2025 elections and get its service delivery back on track
as the current set up where the Leader answers all queries from residents with
“You are criticising our workforce” joins his other failures in the not wanted
any more out-tray.
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