By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council paid out more than £700,000 to agency workers in the last two full calendar years to cover for staff sickness.
Figures obtained by the Local Democracy Reporting Service through a freedom of information request also revealed 63,644 working days were lost at the council in the same period – between January 2022 and December 2023.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cash-strapped Cheshire East Council is paying a whopping £1,298 a day for its new temporary director of finance.
Adele Taylor was appointed to the role of S151 officer on an interim basis following the resignation of Alex Thompson.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council is to pay its new stand-in boss a whopping £1,200 a day.
David Parr’s appointment as the authority’s interim chief executive is expected to be rubber-stamped at full council on Wednesday (October 18).
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East is training up social workers to fill vacancies but some then hop over the border to Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire because they pay more, a councillor has said.
Like most local authorities, Cheshire East has to rely on agency staff because it can’t recruit enough social workers.
Bentley Motors has launched a recruitment drive creating 200 new roles at the Crewe-based car marker.
The drive is part of the company’s Beyond100 strategy, but comes just days after letting go more than 80 agency staff.
Hundreds of agency workers at Bentley Motors have been told their jobs are under threat – despite record sales for the car maker in 2022.
Stunned workers were handed a letter warning them that the company wants to lay off up to 87 Adecco agency staff at the Crewe factory.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Agency rates for care staff are “going through the roof” with some nursing homes having to pay £75 an hour for a qualified nurse, one of the council’s top bosses has said.
The demand for NHS and care staff is mounting with vacancies unfilled across the country.
By Ethan Davies, local democracy reporter
More than £1.3 million was spent on agency social workers by Cheshire East Council last year.
A Freedom of Information request to the council shows that officials sanctioned a £1,370,528 spend on agency social workers in the 2019-20 municipal term.
Nantwich parents have been warned about a bogus modelling agency approaching secondary school students in South Cheshire and pressuring them to send inappropriate images.
A new independent Creative Design Agency, called Off Grid, has launched in South Cheshire.
Two friends Sally Evans and Kim Farrall have teamed up to run the new enterprise, based in Shavington.
An award-winning digital and design agency in Nantwich is to be one of the key backers behind the 2015 Nantwich Food Festival.
trCreative, run by Lynsey Edwards, has signed up as a main sponsor for the event which attracts tens of thousands of people to the town in early September.
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