Kirklees Council to reduce number of senior managers by 30%

Feb 2 2010 by Barry Gibson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

HIGHLY-PAID managers are among the casualties of Kirklees Council’s job cuts, the Examiner can reveal.

The council plans to make 1,500 of its 11,200 non-school staff redundant in the next three years.

And the Examiner understands that 13 of those losing their jobs will be senior managers.

The council’s Innovation and Efficiencies Programme will see 36% of top jobs at the council go.

The number of directors will be cut from seven to four while the number of heads of service will be reduced from 29 to 19.

The changes will get underway at the end of March.

Kirklees currently has directors for adults and communities; children and young people; organisation development; environment, transportation and property; human resources; finance and regeneration.

Last year the post of director of organisation development was advertised with a salary of between £106,000 and £119,000.