10 July 2007
The Council's new website www.placeshaper.co.uk seeks a replacement Chief Executive and features what many people will regard as 10 rather weak achievements under your management whilst stating the essential qualification for a new Chief Executive will be -
"Significant experience as a senior director or as a chief executive in local government or similar public sector organisation with a track record of success as a senior manager"
Why have you and the other lacklustre 40 Councillors deliberately excluded potentially excellent candidates from the private sector with proven records of effective management of £100 million plus businesses and of great success of keeping customers happy, contented and satisfied especially as altruism is not yet dead and local government needs a badly overdue shake-up to increase efficiency and genuine customer satisfaction?
The achievements are a fantastic illustration of how far this Council has come in the past few years and give external validation for the excellent services that our committed and dedicated staff tirelessly provide to residents. It is no mean feat to be rated as three stars against the CPA harder test, to achieve outstanding for education and children's services and receive three stars (excellent) for adult social care. All off these have been achieved despite under-funding from the government (because of flawed population figures) and in Slough with many of these achievements we out-perform all of our more affluent neighbouring boroughs. The requirements for the new Chief Executive as evidenced in the job description and person specification were reviewed in consultation with the three Group Leaders and approved at Council on 20th December 2006.
