16 November - Spend, spend, spend
While I am otherwise occupied an occasional contributor
has read through next week’s Cabinet Agenda and provided a summary so that I
don’t have to; so soon after its publication that one must wonder if this is an inside job.
The following snippet of information is my favourite but only because it requires very
little effort to post it here. The mass exodus of staff who don’t want to work
for Bexley Council has taken an expensive toll on the wage bill. Five and a half
million pounds has gone on Agency staff bills since last April. That is
£1,325,000 more than the same period last year, most of it as we have come to
expect, in care services and children’s services.
Why have so many senior staff gone to work elsewhere? My contributor holds firm opinions on that.
