Town Hall shambles: Chief Executive Linzi Roberts-Egan slams the scheme that her senior managers have been using to appraise staff performance, branding it ‘not fit for purpose’
Sometimes LBWF surprises even those who have followed its antics for many years. As a previous post indicated, the Town Hall is now stuffed with several hundred senior managers, their number having quadrupled since 2015. Many are well paid, too. Thus, 126 (about quarter) earn between £70,000 and £100,000 p.a.; while 37 earn £100,000 p.a. plus, topped off by the Chief Executive, Linzi Roberts-Egan, who is on £217,671 p.a., far more than the Prime Minister. Given such numbers, it is reasonable to assume that the Town Hall must be tolerably well run. Yet, an internal message that Ms Roberts-Egan has circulated today implies that the truth may be rather different. She focuses on the scheme that ... »