Cut in haste but repent at leisure

Derek Myers makes the case for retaining the role of chief executive posts in local government.

By Derek Myers | 06 October 2011

Both Wiltshire Council and Southwark LBC recently announced they were considering plans to scrap their chief executive posts. Derek Myers makes the case for retaining local government's most senior management role

Senior staff cost money! It didn't need communities secretary, Eric Pickles, or the Daily Mail to tell us that.

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Popular articles by Derek Myers

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