MY attention has been drawn to the answer to a resident's Freedom of Information question, about the salaries paid to Haringey's senior staff.
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Please supply a list of the job title and the salary for each of the
highest ten salaries paid to your employees, as from 18th April, 2016.
Please also supply the number of people employed in the "Senior Management Team," and the sum total of their salaries, also as from 18th April 2016
My response is as follows:
The top 10 positions are as follows:
Chief Executive £191,318.00
Deputy Chief Executive £153,472.00
Chief Operating Officer £153,472.00
Director of Regeneration, Planning & Dev £148,672.00
Director of Childrens Services £126,200.00
Assistant Director for Human Resources £126,200.00
Director of Adult Social Services £126,200.00
Tottenham Programme Director £120,000.00
Director of Public Health £112,269.00
AD for Commercial & Operations £112,200.00
The Council has an Executive Management team made up of the Chief
Executive, Deputy Chief Executive, Chief Operating Officer and the
Director of Regeneration, Planning & Development. The total annual salary
for these posts is £646,934.00.
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CDC
Haringey Councillor
Liberal Democrat Party
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Maybe so, but that's optional. Council tax isn't (unfortunately, as I don't feel I'm getting my money's worth lately ;)
I don't buy for one second the argument that they'd earn considerably more in the private sector, as if they're gracing us with their generous presence in the public sector. As I said earlier, their job seems to currently consists of cutting off as many services as possible and selling off as many public assets as they can, so not exactly rocket science and definitely not value for public money...
Remember the bonfire of the Quangos that the Tories promised when they were elected in 2010? That was at the behest of their private sector employer friends who were balking at the salaries that were being paid there. Sometimes the difference was as little as 10% more than what they were willing to pay. You're on the same side as those private sector employers when you rail against high salaries, public or private sector.
I imagine the buy-to-let slumlords of Tottenham do a lot better for much less tax and opportunity for disclosure (not to mention work).
Actually the only "dog whistle" here is by Start Matheson who claims to have "seen it for what it is". Namely a message "for people who hate council workers". Which seems to me a rather nasty and unjustified ad hominem personal attack on the motivation of Clive Carter in posting this link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics
I won't pretend I've had a substantive discussion with Cllr Clive Carter on the issue. But I think I know him well enough to say he does not "hate Council workers". Such a comment is simply unfair and inaccurate. Clive Carter is doing what some other respondents to this discussion are doing, which is to draw attention to the gap in pay and conditions between top and bottom.
A concern I share.
And these days the concern extends far more widely. Including to the privatised staff working in former Council services. What I have discussed with Clive is the impact on service users. Especially when the drive to contract-out services leads to situations like the recently highlighted home care scandals where frontline staff have been expected to complete work without either paid travel time or proper scheduling between their fifteen or thirty minutes appointments.
I haven't yet read but am looking forward to Professor Robert Putnam's "Our Kids" where the author of the classic "Bowling Alone" looks at deep and growing inequality in U.S. Society. It joins the many shelves of new research, articles and books about inequality and its consequences. There's Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz for instance on "The Price of Inequality".
Rapidly worsening in our own society too, with at least some similar consequences. For instance in health. I suggest people take time to read our own Professor Michael Marmot. Or watch him on Youtube.
So please let's discuss these issue seriously, and not in personal attacks.
Oh so now it's my motivation that's in question.
I do so wish that people would ask me rather than tell me what I think and why.
But I'm feeling especially generous today, Alex. So let me indulge you. What do you guess to be my "self interested motivations"?
And so everyone is clear. Would you like to share your own political views? You know mine. And perhaps say why you are so sensitive about criticism of Haringey Council? Surely you don't think it's perfect?
Kind of related to this topic, a recent interview of Haringey leader Clare Kober on her plans for the borough: further cuts and council tax increase mainly, but they did open a chicken shop on Tottenham- yay! http://www.publicfinance.co.uk/interview/2016/01/risk-reward-haring...
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