Ernie Clark. Hilperton Division, Wiltshire Council.

Senior jobs to go?

One of the first jobs for the new chief executive of Wiltshire Council will be to take a serious look at his/her senior management team.

This will save money in the long term, and the council hopes to get a more streamlined system with senior staff less rigidly stuck in their own bits of the organisation.

Reviews are already underway in the Department of Children and Education, Department of Community Services and in the Department of Resources. The Transport, Environment and Leisure (TEL) and Economic Development, Planning and Housing (EDPH) departments are now also to be included and may be merged.

The necessity to carry out a review is because of the totally incorrect savings projections made by the Conservative administration in starting the new council.