100 jobs to go every year at Powys County Council
Friday 16th July 2010, 12:52PM BST.
More than 100 jobs will go every year for the next four years at one of Powys’s biggest employers – the County Council, which plans to make cuts to its 5,000-strong full-time workforce.
The council said earlier this week it would shed 10 per cent of its 8,000 workforce before 2014, but today council bosses said it would only affect the 5,000 full-time employees.
At a meeting of the full council in Llandrindod Wells yesterday members were told the authority plans to shed 2.5 per cent of jobs annually over the next four years – meaning 125 will go every year.
The decision is part of a vision document aimed to help Powys cope with cutbacks in the next four years.
The draft Corporate Improvement Plan outlines how to make £16 million worth of savings before 2014.
Jeremy Patterson, council’s chief executive, said: “It is widely accepted that public services are entering a period of unprecedented uncertainty and financial pressure as the government responds to the financial sector melt down and the affects of the recession.”
It comes as councillors were told the Boundary Commission for Wales wants to cut the number of seats from 73 to 64. The move is expected to cause outrage in small rural communities.
Areas which may be affected include: Llanfihangel and Llanwddyn, Meifod, Guilsfield, Welshpool Castle, Welshpool Gungrog, Llanidloes and Newtown Central and South.
But many, including councillors themselves, believe the move will take local democracy further from rural communities. Powys County Council has until September 14 to comment.
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Powys County Counil have been talking about job cuts for the last three years but nothing happens. So do not hold your breath. Good news for the employees one supposes.
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