By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Councillors have expressed concern about the impact on services and staff after learning nearly 20% of posts at Cheshire East Council are vacant.
The council currently employees 2,692 full-time equivalent staff.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Two hundred of Cheshire East Council’s 3,200 staff have an access card to park for FREE in the multi-storey car park in Crewe.
The Local Democracy Reporting Service asked the council about staff parking after a Crewe businessman said he had witnessed cars leaving
at the same time on numerous days and driving straight through on number plate recognition.
Aldi store and warehouse staff in Crewe and Nantwich are to receive a pay rise in January, the company has said.
It’s believed it will become the first supermarket in the UK to guarantee employees a pay of at least £12 an hour.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council has no plans to introduce parking charges on the council-owned staff car park in Sandbach – meaning its workers will continue to park free if others are charged.
The cash-strapped council has consulted with residents on plans to introduce charges in “free-parking” towns like Sandbach and to revise charges – mainly upwards – in those which already pay such as Nantwich.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council is “slowly reducing” the backlog of planning applications despite still struggling to retain and recruit skilled staff.
A report to the council’s environment and communities committee says the number of live applications in the backlog has reduced over the 12 month period from 2,654 to 1,959, at the end of March 2023.
A Nantwich care home company has recruited new staff from Africa in a bid to fill vacancies.
InSafeHands was forced to be innovative by obtaining a sponsorship licence to recruit care staff from Zambia.
South Cheshire bread suppliers Bakkavor has celebrated its loyal staff at a ceremony in Nantwich.
The garlic and speciality bread producer, with factories in Aston near Nantwich and Crewe, held its loyal service award ceremony at Nantwich Town FC for those who have between five and 20 years service.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
A councillor claims school staff are quitting their jobs because of the stress caused by a problematic computer system brought in to make Cheshire East more efficient.
The Best4Business project, designed to replace the ageing business IT systems with a new cloud-based network at both Cheshire East and Cheshire West & Cheshire councils, has had issues from the outset and is massively over-budget.
Staff at Reaseheath College and University Centre in Nantwich have been honoured at a ceremony for their contribution to “life of its local community”.
The Reaseheath PRIDE Awards are presented to teams and individuals who “go the extra mile” in role modelling the college’s values of People, Responsibility, Integrity, Diversity and Excellence.
Ambulance staff covering Cheshire lost more than 33,000 working days to Long Covid, new figures show.
And some staff have suffered absences lasting more than 12 months, according to a Freedom of Information request to North West Ambulance Service Trust.
Staff and pupils at Wybunbury Delves CE Primary School are celebrating after the latest Ofsted report found it to be a “Good” school.
Ofsted inspectors said they found a “close-knit school community” where pupils “thrive” due to the care, support and the strong bonds between school and home.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Twenty-three care staff have quit companies contracted with Cheshire East Council because they had not been vaccinated against Covid.
And the council is gearing up for the April “double jab” deadline which could hit all its front-line care and health workers.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East’s planning department is under so much pressure because of recruitment problems that some staff are off sick and one new starter left after just six weeks.
A resourcing review is already under way and new executive director of place Jayne Traverse has offered to do a full review of the system.
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