Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
New rules require councils to publish senior pay details
Local Government Minister Rosie Winterton last week announced further new measures to help ensure value for money on council salaries and services.
Ms Winterton pledged to introduce new legislative rules before the end of the year that will require councils to publish the pay and perks of their highest earning 2,500 posts - as part of action to show the taxpayer that all Government is acting fairly and responsibly in an era of constrained public expenditure.
Read more at the Department for Communities & Government..........
Ms Winterton pledged to introduce new legislative rules before the end of the year that will require councils to publish the pay and perks of their highest earning 2,500 posts - as part of action to show the taxpayer that all Government is acting fairly and responsibly in an era of constrained public expenditure.
Read more at the Department for Communities & Government..........
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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These proposals are very welcome. But they don't appear to cover the remuneration and perks of 'consultants' and 'interims' who buzz round local councils like wasps at a picnic.
There's nothing wrong with local authorities temporarily buying-in people with particular specialist and scarce skills and experience. But the public should be routinely told how many there are and why they've been hired. Also how much they are paid. Let's see who's worth £800-a-day or more; and how many people are getting hotels and travel thrown in.
I hope the Government will also look at the peculiar situation of Solace Enterprises - reported on the BBC radio File on 4 a few weeks ago. The BBC described this as "a division of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (SOLACE)".
File on 4 rightly asked about the implications for SOLACE having such a large role in setting the pay levels of its own members. The Minister, John Denham said: "The issue really is that salaries seem to leap up when chief executives move from job to job."
Solace : Concise Oxford Dictionary. "Comfort or consolation in time of distress."
You couldn't make it up, could you? Except that SOLACE can and do.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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I am staggered at the pay levels in local government and in quangos. Dame Suzy Leather who chairs the arguably useful Charity Commission, is on £78,000 for three days work a week. It's nice work if you can get it.
The benchmark ought to be the salary of the Prime Minister (is it c. £170,000?). I do not begrudge the Prime Minister this big salary, not least because regardless of one's views about the present incumbent, this is the most responsible job in the land.
It is seriously questionable as to why anyone in the public sector should receive a salary equal to the PM's, let alone more. Perhaps salaries that are close to or above the PM's should be expressed as proportions of the Prime Ministerial salary. Eg:
£120k would be 0.70 x PM whereas
£200k would be 1.29 x PM
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