Jump to content
Join Sheffield Forum for FREE and join in the discussion! Ă—
Join Sheffield Forum for FREE and join in the discussion!

All Activity

This stream auto-updates     

  1. Today
  2. Planner1
    So how would you propose that the “truly useful” people and their organisation are managed? A workers co-operative?
  3. Planner1
    We get this debate every year when the taxpayers alliance / similar do their annual foi requests and publish the salaries of senior council staff around the country. Last time I looked, SCC had a budget circa £1.5 billion. Find a private sector company with a similar budget and I think you will find the senior manager salaries are an order of magnitude higher. I’ve worked in local government for many years and have worked closely with Directors and Chief Execs at several different organisations including SCC. I have always found Chief Execs to be very smart, very dedicated people, who dedicate their lives to public service. They put in huge amounts of hours, I was always getting mails from senior managers late at night as they invariably go home when the office closes and log on remotely for several hours each night. The job essentially “owns” them. I have never met a Chief Exec I thought wasn’t smarter than me. They are very bright people. ( Bob Kerslake was especially good) I think they earn and deserve every penny they get and deserve a lot more. The comparisons with the Prime Minister are ridiculous. The PM’s salary is dwarfed by the millions they earn after they step down by writing their memoirs, becoming directors of various companies and going on the speaking “circuit”.
  4. Planner1
    The contract is set out as a partnership, where the partners are transparent and open with each other. The problem with it is that from a few months after signing the contract, the councillors were wanting to make huge multi million pound “savings” ( ie budget cuts) in that area of work. This meant that they only actually filled a small fraction of the originally envisaged number of posts in the highways “client” team. Councillors sometimes have to make extremely difficult decisions on what to cut to stay within available budgets. Whatever they decide, some people will be unhappy.
  5. Planner1
    The specification for the Amey contract is huge. It sets out the standards required and includes some pretty severe penalties for non performance against the criteria.
  6. Anna B
    I have to disagree. This fallacy about 'attracting the best talent' was started by the executives themselves, to justify the extortionate salaries that they had also awarded to themselves. It has proven to be a false assumption over and over again, as our stock in the world has declined markedly in most areas. Just look at the debacle over the post office for example, and the mess this government has made in so many areas of their remit. We have never been in such a sorry state. They have used their power simply to feather their own nests, and care not one jot about the broader picture and the people they are meant to serve. We also have the arrival of such gems as 'Police Commissioners' and 'Super Mayors' and other very expensive jobs for the boys though nobody seems to know what they do, and have seen no discernable improvement in their field of operations. Every grandiose pen pusher costs tax payers any number of truly useful workers in the public sector such as nurses and police and teachers. I know which I consider to be the more valuable.
  7. Mkapaka
    ÂŁ250,000, come on.
  8. Mkapaka
    Agree with the principe but those salaries are obscene for the role. public or private sector - once you get to the top table it’s money for contacts, come out of a chief exec job from a major contractor - why not become chief exec for the council letting the contracts - given all your previous experience of “delivering” public realm projects. I don’t mean to say it’s owt dodgy - just a very easy shift. The major contractor went bust “oh it was market forces - but now I’m here to deliver for the public” the boys and girls a few ranks below in both departments - on a quarter / third of the salary would prob be best positioned to move things forward - but after the new chief exec fails - they can always go and say “well I’ve ran major contractors and also ran a local authority so I’m best places for the role as government advisor…….
  9. Yesterday
  10. hackey lad
    What are the differences she’s made ?
  11. Anna B
    Wow Padders, thankyou!
  12. Thirsty Relic
    it's not funny, but it's a rich man's world!
  13. Longcol
    So it appears inspections are carried out once every 5 years as report is dated Jan 2024. From the link above; "Rating at last inspection The last rating for this service was good, (published 31 October 2018)." Going back 15 years or so to when I worked for a housing association that managed care homes, pretty sure inspections were annual. Also they used to inspect the whole service - the latest inspection only looked at 2 aspects and overall rating seems to rely quite a bit on the 2018 inspection. Again from the link above; "We undertook a focused inspection to review the key questions of safe and well-led only. For those key questions not inspected, we used the ratings awarded at the last inspection to calculate the overall rating. Given a good rating by CQC should mean a decent service, but would visit pretty regularly myself if a family member was placed there.
  14. SheffieldForum
    Personally, I really disagreed with Kate Josephs remaining Chief Exec after the Covid parties scandal… …but, I was convinced by a number of business leaders, charity heads and others I spoke to who said she is the first Chief Exec to come in and actually make a difference for them and their organisations. There’s a lot of people in Sheffield — many who were previously convinced that the Council were completely awful and beyond saving — who will defend Kate Josephs and the difference she has made in a short time. So, on that basis I’m happy to give the benefit of the doubt to her right now. And I’m sure she could make well over £250k in the private sector if she wanted.
  15. Longcol
    Just another angle on last nights attack rather than a new one as far as I can see - they're saying the drone attacks may have been carried out by Israeli agents in Iran. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-strike-iran-news-isfahan-latest-b2531290.html
  16. hackey lad
    On this , I agree with you
  17. Longcol
    You should be safe enough under your bridge.
  18. bungleboy69
    Thing is that top execs could quite easily go into the private sector and earn a lot more than ÂŁ250k. We need quality running this fine city and have to pay accordingly. I know tradesmen earning ÂŁ200k a year with nothing like the levels of responsibility of people like KJ.
  19. Padders
    Spot on mate... MONEY MONEY MONEY.
  20. Padders
    Now then Mr. Noob. First of all can I say that I enjoy your posts, always worth reading. But you do tend to lecture people. Now Anna always gives a point of view which rightly or wrongly I usually agree with... Anna never "Rants" is always polite and very sensible in what she posts.. Please give Anna the respect she deserves.
  21. Top4719
    Lazy journalism, Chansiri is a clown but the club have done everything asked of them by SAG and the fact that there have been zero incidents shows this piece of crap article for what it is, I wouldn't wipe my backside on the Mail.
  22. Top4719
    The Premier League/Sky cartel was set up to sell TV rights abroad to the highest bidder, they don't care about the history, the football pyramid, anything other than protecting their most saleable assets at all costs, when I saw SUFC fans getting sucked into the hype with "we are Premier League" chants and proclamations of reaching the "promised land" it shows how much glossy advertising can mask reality, football fans should oppose the Premier League with every fibre of their being if they want the game to survive.
  23. Runningman
    Those salaries can in no way be justified when today we have food banks, folks on the street and poverty in and amongst a lot of communities. Fair comment that folks in such positions should be paid accordingly, but those salaries are more than ridiculous !!
  24. WildSheffield
    until
    Come and Join in at Kilnhurst Ings a fantastic wetland reserve in Rotherham. Everyone welcome. We will undertake an array of practical tasks and habitat management work. Please wear old, outdoor clothing and stout footwear. Meet us on site at 10am. We will provide tools and work gloves. Bring packed dinner and a drink if you would like to stay on site all day. Booking Essential. Please note if this event falls on a bank holiday the session will not run.
  25. ECCOnoob
    What has any of that crap got to do with a private developer investing their private money into building something on private land. It is THE STATE who has responsibility for mandatory housing for those in genuine destitution, not private business. Stop turning every thread into one of your anti-capitalist, anti-corporation, anti-neoliberalism rants.
  26. Longcol
    And because the comparison should be between the PM and civil servants eg a good dozen of civil servants working for Network Rail and on HS2 are on over ÂŁ300k, top one ÂŁ650k. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/senior-officials-high-earners-salaries
  27. GabrielC
    Sunak thinks that by going more to the right he can win back potential voters from Reform UK. The thing is that's only a small percentage of the Tory vote and ignoring the central right voter that gets them in. Johnson won power on getting Brexit done platform Sunak has got nothing to run a campaign on.
  1. Load more activity
  2. ^ Back to Top


Ă—
Ă—
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.

Close   I accept