Voluntary redundancies confirmed

Date of issue: Thursday 27 August 2009

Six of Carlisle City Council’s senior managers will be taking voluntary redundancy as part of the Council’s transformation programme.

In July, City Councillors approved a new Senior Management Structure, reducing the number of senior management posts from 19 to nine.

This new structure is designed to not only help to provide some of the savings needed for the City Council, but will also to enable the Council to face the future and be flexible to meet the challenges of the economic recession and the likely reduction in income, including Government funding over the coming years.

The new management structure will provide an annual saving of around £630,000 and additional savings will be needed to achieve the planned £1million revenue savings by 2010/2011.

Senior managers were invited to apply for voluntary redundancy by the City Council’s Town Clerk and Chief Executive and each applicant was considered and then recommended to the Employment Panel, who met on Tuesday 25 August 2009, to consider the individual financial settlements of each case.

The remaining members of the senior management and heads of service teams will have an opportunity to apply for posts within the new structure and the recruitment and selection process is scheduled for the end of September. As part of the same process, these members of staff will be issued with redundancy notices on the 16 September 2009.